I have an idea in my head, and I can't quite put all the details together. The intent with of this posting is to start a healthy debate of the merits of -> vs. comp. I know people on this list will think of something.
After designing my own Clojure libraries for a while, I've come to a conclusion in the -> vs. comp debate. I think comp & partial is a better choice than ->, because they return a closure. I believe working with closures have the following advantages * It "just works" with higher order functions, like map or filter. * comp, like any other function, can be swapped out. As long as the result is a closure, the rest of the code will "just work". This makes swapping out a monad more straightforward. * comp & partial can be applied to a list, -> cannot. Given these reasons, I'd like to make a proposal. Contrib should be centered around closures, not ->. In order to generate closures, every function should take parameters first, and data at the end, so that they work well with partial. When possible, higher order functions should be given preference over macros. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
