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Clojure Polymorphism
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Clojure Polymorphism

by Paul Stadig
November 2019
Intermediate to advanced
56 pages
37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Conclusion

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This section includes steps that are to be performed by the students to complete and achieve the objectives of the book.

Clojure's options for abstraction definition and implementation have a variety of advantages and disadvantages. There is no universal rule for how to use them. You must balance concerns about flexibility, code elasticity, performance, separation of concerns, cross-platform compatibility, and dynamism (to name a few).

By looking at a couple of different problems solved in different ways, we have extracted some principles:

  1. If you have a reasonable expectation that your code may change, then you should use some kind of runtime dispatch mechanism (even that from Plain Functions + Client Namespace).
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ISBN: 9781838982362