R.cond is a mess!

R.cond returns a function, why? It doesn’t make any sense.

What is more primitive, a function that resolves on invocation, or one that always returns a function? I want to simply be able to do this:

    const address = R.cond([
        [email.to && email.to.includes(search), email.to],
        [email.cc && email.cc.includes(search), email.cc],
        [email.bcc && email.bcc.includes(search), email.bcc],
    ]);

It doesn’t work! Because it returns a function.

You’re example in the docs is this:

var fn = R.cond([
  [R.equals(0),   R.always('water freezes at 0°C')],
  [R.equals(100), R.always('water boils at 100°C')],
  [R.T,           temp => 'nothing special happens at ' + temp + '°C']
]);
fn(0); //=> 'water freezes at 0°C'
fn(50); //=> 'nothing special happens at 50°C'
fn(100); //=> 'water boils at 100°C'

However, if you wrote the cond how I’m suggesting, it would look like this, which is even more readable! and it allows cond to work more generally on more use cases:

var fn = (x) => R.cond([
  [x === 0 ,    'water freezes at 0°C'],
  [x === 100, 'water boils at 100°C'],
  [true,           'nothing special happens at ' + x + '°C']
]);
fn(0); //=> 'water freezes at 0°C'
fn(50); //=> 'nothing special happens at 50°C'
fn(100); //=> 'water boils at 100°C'

The way it is right now, how many people actual use cond, probably very few. I would recommend not using it and avoiding it even.

I really like Ramda, but I think you screwed up with this one, thank you.

[davidchambers]

This isn’t about what works for you, it’s about what’s best, period, so let’s please leave out of the discussion these personal sentiments.

This thread contains several unsubstantiated claims which sound to me very much like personal sentiments. For example:

Nested ternaries are a terrible idea though, and I would never want to do that to a poor soul trying to read my code.

It’s clear that you care a great deal about Ramda @decoursin, which is wonderful. Everyone involved in this discussion cares a great deal about Ramda. My suggestion to you is that you consider the tone with which you convey your ideas. I welcome disagreement, but prefer people to disagree with me in a friendly manner. 😃

[buzzdecafe]

i’m good with it