Chapter 9. Combining data and code
This chapter covers
- Namespaces
- Exploring Clojure multimethods with the Universal Design Pattern
- Types, protocols, and records
- A fluent builder for chess moves
Clojure provides powerful features for grouping and partitioning logical units of code and data. Most logical groupings occur in namespaces, Clojure’s analogue to Java packages. We explore how to build, manipulate, and reason about them. Also, in this chapter we’ll play with Clojure’s powerful multimethods that provide polymorphism based on arbitrary dispatch functions. We’ll then uncover recent additions to Clojure supporting abstraction-oriented programming—types, protocols, and records. Finally, the chapter concludes with the creation of a fluent ...
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