If I have a list, I can use map to apply a function to each item of the list.
(map sqrt (list 1 4 9))
(1 2 3)
I can also use map in front of a list of lists:
(map count (list (list 1 2 3) (list 4 5)))
(4 5)
Now is there a way to apply sqrt to each number in the list of lists? I want to start from
(list (list 1 4 9) (list 16 25))
and obtain
((1 2 3)(4 5))
However, the following does not seem to work,
(map (map sqrt) (list (list 1 4 9) (list 16 25)))
nor the following.
(map (fn [x] (map sqrt x)) (list (list 1 4 9) (list 16 25)))
Why? (And how do I solve this?)
Your second to last version "nearly" works. Clojure has no automatic
currying, so (map sqrt) is not partial application, but (map sqrt)
returns a transducer, which takes one argument and returns a function
with three different arities - so running your code there will give you
back a function for each list of numbers.
To make that work, you can use partial:
user=> (map (partial map sqrt) (list (list 1 4 9) (list 16 25)))
((1 2 3) (4 5))
And of course there is the obligatory specter answer:
user=> (transform [ALL ALL] sqrt '((1 4 9)(16 25)))
((1 2 3) (4 5))