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Clojure Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Clojure Programming Cookbook Handle every problem you come across in the world of Clojure programming with this expert collection of recipes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785885037
Length 618 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nicolas Modrzyk Nicolas Modrzyk
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Makoto Hashimoto Makoto Hashimoto
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Live Programming with Clojure FREE CHAPTER 2. Interacting with Collections 3. Clojure Next 4. File Access and the Network 5. Working with Other Languages 6. Concurrency and Parallelism 7. Advanced Tips 8. Web Applications 9. Testing 10. Deployment and DevOps

Using functional programming style

In this recipe, we will show you how to define and use anonymous functions and have functions as arguments and return functions. Using the concepts and techniques described here correctly provides higher abstraction.

Getting ready

This section does not make use of any external library, so you can just start a REPL and be ready.

How to do it...

First, let's see some functions take functional arguments.

Functions taking functions as their arguments

Clojure functions such as map and reduce can take functions as arguments.

map

The map function has already been seen in the previous chapters. The map function takes a function as the first argument, applies it to all elements of collection arguments, and returns a lazy sequence.

In the following example, map applies inc to all elements of the collection:

(map inc [1 2 3 4 5]) 
;;=> (2 3 4 5 6) 

The map function takes an arbitrary number of arguments and returns a lazy sequence. The following code applies ...

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