The inimitable Chouser has written an exhaustive analysis of the many ways to flatten a sequence of sequences in Clojure.
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The inimitable Chouser has written an exhaustive analysis of the many ways to flatten a sequence of sequences in Clojure.
Continuing my series of Clojure do’s and don’ts — which, as always, is a mix of technical recommendations and my personal stylistic preferences — and continuing on the topic of the previous post in this series, here are some more arbitrary rules about anonymous functions. I’m doubling down the assertion in my last post: The…
A mistake that shows up at least once in almost every class I teach. The Clojure reader macro #() creates an anonymous function whose body is a single expression, and that expression must be a list.
A brief addendum to my last post about Clojure’s threading macros. As I was saying … I said you could use as-> to work around the placement of an argument that doesn’t quite fit into a larger pattern of ->. My example was: (-> results :matches (as-> matches (filter winning-match? matches)) (nth 3) :scores (get…
No, not multi-threading. I’m talking about Clojure’s threading macros, better known as “the arrows.” The -> (“thread-first”) and ->> (“thread-last”) macros are small but significant innovations in Clojure’s Lisp-like syntax. They support a functional style of programming with return values and make composition intuitive. They answer the two chief complaints about Lisp syntax: too many…
How long does Clojure start-up really take? Let’s find out.
Polymorphism is a powerful feature. The purpose of polymorphism is to provide a single, consistent interface to a caller. There may be multiple ways to carry out that behavior, but the caller doesn’t need to know that. When you call a polymorphic function, you remain blissfully ignorant of (and therefore decoupled from) which method will…
Earlier this year, I wrote a piece for the Cognitect blog: Developing the Language of the Domain (blog.cognitect.com) In it, I describe the process of building a domain-driven application using Clojure, ClojureScript, EDN, Datomic, clojure.spec, Pedestal, and Om.
Quick link: Stuart’s ns Style Guide Everyone has their own personal quirks when it comes to syntax. No matter how hard you try to lock it down with code review, IDEs, scripts, or check-in hooks, individual differences will emerge.
I am responsible — for better or for worse — for the library which eventually became clojure.test. It has remained largely the same since it was first added to the language distribution back in the pre-1.0 days. While there are many things about clojure.test which I would do differently now — dynamic binding, var metadata,…