On Apr 7, 12:37 pm, Armando Blancas <armando_blan...@yahoo.com> wrote: > in other languages they'd be annotations and maybe perceived > as redundant, e.g. a call like: (circle x y radius) is readable
Ah, but what about: (circle year population income) vs. (circle :x year :y population :r income) > In Smtalltalk a single-arg keyword message is readable because the > syntax gets the received out of the way to the left: 5.0 raisedTo: 3 > where #raisedTo: is both the selector and keyword. (raise base: 5 to: 3) ;; all keyword (raise 5 to: 3) ;; 1st positional + 2nd keyword Smalltalk may actually be the asymmetrical one here: truck moveX: 5 y: 6 vs. truck move x: 5 y: 6 ;; my "prefixed" version Smalltalk munges the root command name (move) with the keyword for the first argument (X), which is why I showed a prefixed version instead. In Clojure this might be: (move :obj truck :x 5 :y 6) ;; all keyword (move truck :x 5 :y 6) ;; combine position + keyword -- 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
