named-or-anonymous-functions.md

Comparing named & anonymous functions

The following functions take two strings as arguments and join then together using the str function. An empty string is placed between the two arguments as they are joined together with the str function.

As an anonymous function

(
(fn [string1 string2] (str string1 " " string2))
"Hello" "Function"
)

As a named function:

(defn join-with-space
  [s1 s2]
  (str s1 " " s2))
  
(join-with-space "Hello" "Function")

Hint::

In general its preferable to use named functions in your Clojure code, as this makes your code very easy to read.

Anonymous functions should be used sparingly.