Hi everyone, After the very interesting keyword argument debate, I have another question about API design. Specifically I'm interested in suggestions about parameter order. The new API guidelines, which have changed very recently to favour maps over keyword args, also changed to include a suggestion that the keyword map be the first argument, since it's the "least variance" argument.
I've been using some fairly simple rules to order my parameters, basically 1) functions that operate on collections should have the collection last to interoperate with ->>, and 2) functions operating on a "main" object should accept that first, to interoperate with ->. #2 is generally pretty intuitive since it's the same as Java interop and protocol calls, but there's still a fair amount of ambiguity with just these rules unless all your functions have one or two arguments. I'm interested in opinions about the "variance" ordering, since I assume this is to facilitate use of partial and the like. I never really use partial myself so I don't have a good feeling for how this ordering should work - any comments or opinions? Thanks, Colin -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
