gistfile1.clj

(ns pc.core
  (str 1 2 nil 3)
  (+ 1 3)
  (Character/toUpperCase \s)
  (def y (apply str (interleave "Attack at midnight" "The purple elephant chortled")))
  (apply str (take-nth 2 y))
  ; (if part) (else part), () evaluates true
  (if () "We are in clojure!" "We are in common Lisp!")
  ; zero is true too. that's uh, pretty absurd.
  (if 0 "Zero is true" "Zero is false")
  (true? 0) ;false
  (zero? 0) ;true
  (nil? nil) ;true
  (nil? "nil") ;false
  (def inventors {"Lisp" "McCarthy" "Clojure" "Hickey"})
  (inventors "Lisp")
  (inventors "Foo")
  (get inventors "Foo" "I dunno!")
  :foo
  (def inventors {:Lisp "McCarthy" :Clojure "Hickey"})
  (inventors :Clojure)
  (defstruct book :title :author)
  (def b (struct book "Anathem" "Neal Stephenson"))
  b ;{:title, :author, etc}
  (:title b) ; "Anathem"
  (struct-map book :copyright 2008 :title "Anathem") ; author nil
  '(1 2)
  (str "Hello" " " "world")
  (string? "Hello")
  (keyword? :hello)
  (symbol? 'hello)
  (defn greeting
	"Returns a greeting of the form 'hello, username'"
	([] (greeting "world"))
	([username]
	(str "Hello, " username)))
  (greeting "world")
  (doc greeting)
  (greeting)
  (defn date [p1 p2 & chaperones]
	(println p1 "and" p2
			 "went out with" (count chaperones) "chaperones"))
  (date "Romeo" "Juliet" "Friar Lawrence" "Nurse")
  (def chap ["Friar Lawrence" "Nurse"])
  (date "Romeo" "Juliet" chap) ; 1
  (defn indexable-word? [word]
	(> (count word) 2))
  (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils :only (re-split)])
  (filter indexable-word? (re-split #"\W+" "A fine day it is"))
  (filter (fn [w] (> (count w) 2)) (re-split #"\W+" "A fine day"))
  (filter #(> (count %) 2) (re-split #"\W+" "A fine day it is"))
  (defn indexable-words [text]
	(let [indexable-word? (fn [w] (> (count w) 2))]
	  (filter indexable-word? (re-split #"\W+" text))))
  (indexable-words "a fine day it is")
  (defn make-greeter [greeting-prefix]
	(fn [username] (str greeting-prefix ", " username)))
  (def hello-greeting (make-greeter "Hello"))
  (hello-greeting "world")
  ((make-greeter "Howdy") "pardner")
  (def foo 10)
  foo
  (var foo)
  #'foo
  (defn triple [number] (* 3 number))
  (triple 10)
  (def b 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000)
  (triple (* b b)) ; well now I'm just damned impressed.
  ; let binds top and right, prevents calculating more than once.
  (defn square-corners [bottom left size]
	(let [top (+ bottom size)
		  right (+ left size)]
	  [[bottom left] [top left] [top right] [bottom right]]))
  (square-corners 10 10 50)
  (defn greet-author-1 [author]
	(println "Hello," (:first-name author)))
  (def vv {:last-name "Vinge" :first-name "Vernor"})
  (greet-author-1 vv)
  (defn greet-author-2 [{fname :first-name}]
	(println "Hello," fname))
  (greet-author-2 vv)
  (let [[x y] [1 2 3]]
	[x y])
  (let [[_ _ z] [1 2 3]]
	z) ;use _ to indicate that you don't care
  (let [[x y :as coords] (range 1 7)]
	(str "x: " x ", y:" y ", total " (count coords)))
  (use '[clojure.contrib.str-utils :only (re-split str-join)])
  
  (defn ellipsize [words]
	(let [[w1 w2 w3] (re-split #"\s+" words)]
	  (str-join " " [w1 w2 w3 "..."])))
  ; attempt at cleaning it up
  (def sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog")
  (def sentlist (re-split #"\s+" sentence))
  (let [lst sentlist result []]
	(def initial (str (str-join " " (take 3 sentlist)) "...")))
  ; MUCH BETTER
  
  (defn ellip-2 [sentence]
	(let [word-seq (re-split #"\s+" words)]
	  (str (str-join " " (take 3 word-seq)) "...")))

  (defn ellip-2 [words]
	(str (->> words (re-split #"\s+") (take 3) (str-join " ")) "..."))
  
  (ellip-2 "YO THIS IS A TEST SENTENCE") ; "YO THIS IS..."
  ; delightful.
  
  (str "a " "b ")
  (subvec (vec sentlist) 0 3) ; vectorize first
  (take 3 sentlist)
  ;(vec sentlist)
  (nth sentlist 0)
  (first (re-split #"\s+" sentence))
  (ellipsize sentence) ; "The quick brown ..." <--- fix?
  (resolve 'foo)
  java.io.File/separator ;"/"
  (require 'clojure.contrib.math)
  (use '[clojure.contrib.math :only (round)])
  (clojure.contrib.math/round 1.7) ; 2
  (round 1.7) ; ^^
  ; idiomatic namespaces and library use
  (ns examples.exploring
	(:use clojure.contrib.str-utils)
	(:import (java.io File)))
  (find-doc "ns-")
  (defn is-small? [number]
	(if (< number 100) true (do
							  (println "Saw a big number" number)
							  false)))
  (is-small? 50)
  (is-small? 5000)
  ; result empty vector, x to 5, x isn't zero,
  ; conjoins x to result, decrements x until zero
  ; then returns the result vector
  (loop [result [] x 5]
	(if (zero? x)
	  result
	  (recur (conj result x) (dec x))))
  (defn countdown [result x]
	(if (zero? x)
	  result
	  (recur (conj result x) (dec x))))
  (countdown [] 5)
  (into [] (take 5 (iterate dec 5)))
  (into [] (drop-last (reverse (range 6))))
  (vec (reverse (rest (range 6))))
  (defn indexed [coll] (map vector (iterate inc 0) coll))
  (indexed "abcde")
  (defn index-filter [pred coll]
	(when pred
	  (for [[idx elt] (indexed coll) :when (pred elt)] idx)))
  (index-filter #{\a \b} "abcdbbb")
  (defn index-of-any [pred coll]
	(first (index-filter pred coll)))
  (index-of-any #{\z \a} "zzabyycdxx")
  (nth (index-filter #{:h} [:t :t :h :t :h :t :t :t :h :h]) 2) ; third instance of :h
  (def stu {:name "Stu" :email "stu@thinkrelevance.com"})
  (def serializable-stu (with-meta stu {:serialize true}))
  (= stu serializable-stu) ;true
  (identical? stu serializable-stu) ;false, checks for reference identity
  (meta stu)
  (meta serializable-stu) ; :serialize true
  (comment ^serializable-stu) ; DEPRECATED

  (def stu-with-address (assoc serializable-stu :state "NC"))
  stu-with-address ; has email in the proper data
  (type stu-with-address) ; persistent array map
  (meta stu-with-address)
  ; #^stu-with-address ; not working :(

  (use '[clojure.contrib.duck-streams :only (spit)])
  (spit "hello.out" "Hello, world")
  (first '(1 2 3))
  (rest '(1 2 3))
  (cons 0 '(1 2 3))
  (take 20 (repeat 1))
  (take 10 (iterate inc 1))
  (import '(java.io File))
  (def fs (file-seq (File. ".")))
  (nth fs 3)
  
  )