Nope, that doesn't actually work...

On Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:57:47 PM UTC-4, Sam Raker wrote:
>
> Wait. Should be: 
>
> (defn f [& args] (let [default-args-atom (atom {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 4}) kwds 
> [:a :b :c :d]
>                              kwargs (map-indexed (fn [idx arg] (if 
> (keyword? arg) (swap! default-args-atom assoc arg (get args (inc idx))) 
> (swap! a assoc (get kwds idx) arg))) args)]
>     (function-that-actually-does-what-i-want-to-do (:a @default-args-atom) 
> (:b @default-args-atom) (:c @default-args-atom) (:d @default-args-atom)))
>
> because there's no guarantee (vec (keys @default-args-atom)) will return 
> the keys in the same order every time.
>
> On Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:45:02 PM UTC-4, Sam Raker wrote:
>>
>> I hacked this together:
>>
>> (defn f [& args] (let [default-args-atom (atom {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 4}) 
>> kwds (vec (keys @default-args-atom)) 
>>                              kwargs (map-indexed (fn [idx arg] (if 
>> (keyword? arg) (swap! default-args-atom assoc arg (get args (inc idx))) 
>> (swap! a assoc (get kwds idx) arg))) args)]
>>     (function-that-actually-does-what-i-want-to-do (:a 
>> @default-args-atom) (:b @default-args-atom) (:c @default-args-atom) (:d 
>> @default-args-atom)))
>>
>> But it seems kind of gross to me. Is there a cleaner solution?
>>
>> On Sunday, July 20, 2014 8:16:55 PM UTC-4, Alex Baranosky wrote:
>>>
>>> You can get keyword args like this:
>>>
>>> (defn f [& {:keys [a b c d]
>>>             :or {a 1 b 2 c 3 d 4}}]
>>>   [a b c d])
>>>
>>> But you cannot also get the ability to call:
>>> (f 5 6 7 8)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:13 PM, Sam Raker <sam....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to write a function that takes (up to) 4 arguments. I want 
>>>> to be able to supply every argument positionally, with a keyword or as a 
>>>> default, so that
>>>>
>>>> (f)
>>>> (f 1)
>>>> (f 1 2)
>>>> (f 1 2 3)
>>>> (f 1 2 3 4)
>>>> (f 1 :b 2)
>>>> (f 1 2 :c 3)
>>>> ...
>>>> (f :a 1 :b 2 :c 3 :d 4)
>>>>
>>>> are all equivalent. In Python, I could do this by
>>>>
>>>> def f(a=1,b=2,c=3,d=4):...
>>>>
>>>> but I'm not sure how to do it in Clojure.
>>>>
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