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Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
(some-function-name arg1 arg2)
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages developed in the 1960, it came before and is very elegant actually. You can write incredibly powerful things with this pattern and it's also really simple to build an interpreter for it with the stuff they had at their disposal at the time.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
As an added bonus, you now know Lisp. This is how all Lisp syntax works: `(function arg1 arg2 ...)`. That's literally it.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
That allows for some nifty tricks like:
(reduce + [1 2 3]) ; returns 6
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
Cool site, I've never tried Clojure before. My first reaction though is that (+ 1 1) is a highly unconventional and possibly confusing way of writing 1+1, and I'm not sure why that design choice came about.
The real advantage of this notation is that it's much, much easier to stack calculations.
Example:
(/ (+ 34 68 12 9 20) 140)
You can imagine how the first part of that could come about:
(+ 34 68 12 9 20)
And then the second part (pseudocode):
(/ sum 140)
In Clojure it's easy to mash them together, or for example to paste the first calculation in the second.
(/ (+ 34 68 12 9 20) 140)
Want to go further? Easy: add another enclosing parens.
(* (/ (+ 34 68 12 9 20) 140) 1.5 2)
Note how we're stacking in a more human-readable order - a new calculation starts on the left hand side, the first thing we see as we read it.
Compare how verbose the alternative is:
((34 + 68 + 12 + 9 + 20) / 140) * 1.5 * 2