On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant < abonnaireserge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:31 AM, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> - return nil instead of throwing if no match found to mirror the behavior >> of cond >> >> > I don't like this. > I'm definitely open to talking about it. Strong opinions appreciated :) > Why are we emulating cond? clojure.core/case, for example, seems closer to > what `match` provides, > and that throws an IllegalArgumentException if there is no match. > > Seems arbitrary to me. > > Is there more to it? > > Thanks, > Ambrose > A good point. I'm mostly thinking about user friendliness here. I'm also OK w/ the idea of providing two versions of match - one w/ verbose error reporting that throws and perhaps the default one that doesn't David -- 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
