On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:30 AM, James Keats <james.w.ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll re-quote it: "• Most Clojure programmers go through an arc.
> First they think “eww, Java” and try to hide all the Java.  Then they
> think “ooh, Java” and realize that Clojure is a powerful way to write
> Java code.  Rich frowns upon “wrapper” functions in Clojure that do
> nothing but wrap a Java method.  Calling the Java method directly is
> faster and easier to look up in JavaDoc."

There's one obvious use case for such a wrapper function, though: if
you'll want to pass the Java method to HOFs from time to time. You
can't directly pass a Java method to a HOF, but you can pass such a
wrapper function.

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