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Should I provide partialed functions based on API call in Clojure?
I am designing a library to wrap an API with Clojure. The API requires user credentials to authenticate user related calls.
My first approach was to have functions that do each task the API can do:
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Clojure NameSpace Design
I am new to Clojure and trying to get a handle on organizing a project's namespaces. I am working on a solver for the knapsack problem. Currently, I have broken the modules into files, but everything ...
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"Use map instead of class to represent data" -Rich Hickey
In this video by Rich Hickey, the Clojure creator, he advises to use map to represent data instead of using a class to represent it, as done in Java. I don't understand how it can be better, since how ...
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Where do we put "asking the world" code when we separate computation from side effects?
According to Command-Query Separation principle, as well as Thinking in Data and DDD with Clojure presentations one should separate side effects (modifying the world) from computations and decisions, ...
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Clojure state and persistence
I'm learning Clojure to see if it's something I can leverage at my current job, and more importantly, how I can convince my bosses that Clojure has a 'killer feature' over java that makes it worth the ...
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