Imo, that makes the let version even better. The Clojure compiler doesn't to allow circular dependencies, so I would consider the letfn behavior as "surprising" and therefore unideal.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Dan Girellini <d...@longhands.org> wrote: > Using letfn allows the local functions to reference each other > arbitrarily. In your example, f2 can call f1 but not vice versa. > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Alex Baranosky < > alexander.barano...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> letfn has no value imo. It is an unwritten stylistic rule I have to never >> use it. Why introduce a new macro syntax for something that could just as >> easily be written as?: >> >> (let [f1 (fn [] ...) >> f2 (fn [] ...)] >> (+ (f1) (f2))) >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:41 PM, henry w <henryw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I never heard of letfn before. that looks like a clear way to do what i >>> need. >>> >>> just found this stackoverflow thread which is relevant: >>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23255798/clojure-style-defn-vs-letfn >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Alex Baranosky < >>> alexander.barano...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'd structure my app like this. >>>> >>>> Say there's one "pages" ns with code for different webpages >>>> >>>> pages/index is a pretty short function >>>> pages/dashboard is a more elaborate function and has two subcomponents: >>>> ->analytics, and ->user-info >>>> pages.analytics/->analytics >>>> pages.user-info/->user-info >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Tassilo Horn <t...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> henry w <henryw...@gmail.com> writes: >>>>> >>>>> > you have understood my arguments pretty much. again the thing that >>>>> > bothers me is that f and g are logically part of x only, but are >>>>> > visible from y and z (even if and and y are declared higher up, the >>>>> > same problem applies to their own related, private fns and x). >>>>> >>>>> Then declare f and g inside of x using `let' or `letfn'. >>>>> >>>>> Bye, >>>>> Tassilo >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
