If it's more than a few parameters, I prefer maps.. It enables the
possibility of things like merge.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Andrey Antukh <n...@niwi.be> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have the same doubt!
>
> However, At this time, I prefer use a explicit map instead keywords,
> because for me is much clear that using keywords.
>
> Andrey.
>
>
> 2014-04-26 0:41 GMT+02:00 Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on an API at the moment, and I'm balancing whether to use
>> inline keyword args which I would destructure in the functions, or whether
>> to just pass an explicit params map as the last parameter. Comparison of
>> the two options in case I'm not explaining myself well:
>>
>> Kwargs:
>> (class/create-class :instance list
>> :description "My description"
>> :implements (keys class-methods)
>> :methods (calculate-my-methods))
>>
>> Map:
>> (class/create-class {:instance list
>> :description "My description"
>> :implements (keys class-methods)
>> :methods (calculate-my-methods)})
>>
>> A lot of APIs I've seen have favoured kwargs, and it undeniably makes for
>> some pretty code - Seesaw is the best example I've seen here, the API is a
>> thing of beauty. However it seems to me to have some issues:
>>
>> 1. If I want to delegate to another call from within an API function
>> and use the same arguments, it's really awkward: (apply delegate
>> (mapcat identity args)) or some similarly awful black juxt magic. Or
>> of course writing out all the parameters again, but that's even worse.
>> 2. It's more difficult to make parameters optional based on some
>> runtime criteria since the params are baked into the function call. I
>> guess
>> this is usually dealt with by making the calls handle nil for a particular
>> parameter.
>>
>> Both of these are much easier when passing an explicit map. Any
>> preferences here, from either writing or using APIs like this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Colin
>>
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