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Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

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Clojure Destructuring Tutorial and Cheat Sheet

(Related blog post)

Simply put, destructuring in Clojure is a way extract values from a datastructure and bind them to symbols, without having to explicitly traverse the datstructure. It allows for elegant and concise Clojure code.

Vectors

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(defn digits
  "Generate a list of digits contained in the number"
  [number]
  (loop [found-digits '() base (quot number 10) digit (rem number 10)]
    (let [found-digits (conj found-digits (if (neg? digit) (- digit) digit))]
      (if (zero? base)
        found-digits
        (recur found-digits (quot base 10) (rem base 10))))))

(defn divisible-digits

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import java.lang.reflect.*;

//This is still basically an estimate, but should be reasonably accurate.
public class SizeOf {
	
	//4 bytes on 32 bit JVM
	public static final int REFERENCE_SIZE = 8;
	public static int deepSize(boolean b) { return 1; }
	public static int deepSize(byte b) { return 1; }
	public static int deepSize(char c) { return 2; }