"It is now apparent?"
-- Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
Act IV, Scene II, Line 135
Every now and then you read something and think, that is exactly what I have been thinking to myself but could not find the words. Such an experience happen to myself this week.
I was reading Clojure Programming by Chas Emerick, Brian Carper, and Christophe Grand and found exactly how I have been thinking about the higher order function map but have not been able to express in words properly (it is on page 62 in the first edition).
map f [a b c] can be expressed as [(f a) (f b) (f c)]
Likewise map f [a b c] [x y z] can be expressed as [(f a x) (f b y) (f c z)] and so on ...
So what would this look like in code?
Glad you asked.
We see that in Clojure we can get exactly what we are looking for. As a comparison we fins that in C# using the Zip we can get fairly close.
