moin moin

and welcome @ericnormand and @jcthalys to #clojure-uk

månmån

Morning folks.

morning

Morning all!

Random core function of the day:

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clojure.core/identity
([x])
  Returns its argument.

Morning gentlepeople

@peterwestmacott (filter identity ...) is rather more common in my codebase than (filter some? ...)

yes, I think the only interesting thing to say about the identity function is that it is surprisingly useful in a highly functional language

and it is the only possible (referentially transparent) implementation of its type signature, good for demonstrating parametricity

I never use (filter identity) because then it trips me up when it also removes false and I don't want that. Hence I'm (remove nil?) most of the time.

could also do (keep identity)

identity example I've used sometime: returns the first truthy value: (some identity [nil false 2 3])

Hello All 🙂 Good Morning!

Morning @maleghast 👋

🙂

Heya @chrjs

Is anyone here thinking of attending Dutch Clojure Days? http://clojuredays.org/

i sure am

i might not be able to go to Clojure Sync, so that'll be a good other option

of course I am going!

obviously free beer then @thomas;)

🙂

is it that obvious?

Yeah, don’t forget to charge your GPS for navigation purposes afterwards.

@thomas, I think you need to update your profile pic to a real photo of yourself so that I can find you this time round if I end up going. Didn't catch you at ClojureX as I didn't know what you actually look like 😉

lol

he’s the tall one

I am indeed....

but I might do that...

and for Dutch Clojure Days I need to take train.. no GPS involved

That depends... You might need a GPS to find the train station if you've had too much of that free beer

Don’t think I’ve laughed so much leaving a conference. @thomas and I walked out of Codenode, “You’re at Travelodge, cool let’s go!” Get to the door he turns left and I turn right. You really had to be there. 🙂

hahaha

That's brilliant! I'm still laughing

it was really funny.....

and the main train station in Amsterdam is quite easy to find.... you just go north.

I'll remember to bring a compass... Just in case

probably best, don't want to end up in a certain district