Don't want to thank each of you individually - so to all who answered -
Thank-you!
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 9:10:47 PM UTC-4, Phil Virgo wrote:
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> I just starting to try and teach myself Clojure. Kindly let me know if
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> Nope, that's fine. (Although you can't nest one anonymous function inside
> another as then it would be ambiguous what % refers to.)
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To further clarify when anonymous functions can't be nested:
#(+ % (+ % (+ % (+ % ==> totally legal
#(+ % (#(* 2 %) %)) ===> totally not legal
On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 8:10:47 PM UTC-5, Phil Virgo wrote:
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> I just starting to try and teach myself Clojure. Kindly let me know if
> there is a more appropriate place I should post simple questions.
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This is fine! You might also enjoy the #beginners room on the
http://clojurians.net/
Your use of % is syntactically correct.
However, think of what is happening in the second example.
Every time take-while invokes your function #(= (first %) %), % is bound to
an element of the list s.
So, something like this would happen when take-while is checking the first
element: (=
On May 23, 2016 at 6:10:46 PM, Phil Virgo (pwvi...@gmail.com) wrote:
(take-while #(= (first %) %) s) ; IllegalArgumentException Don't know how
to create ISeq from: java.lang.Long clojure.lang.RT.seqFrom (RT.java:505)
Your problem is that take-while will call the predicate for each item in
