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Mastering Clojure

You're reading from   Mastering Clojure Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889745
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akhil Wali Akhil Wali
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with Sequences and Patterns FREE CHAPTER 2. Orchestrating Concurrency and Parallelism 3. Parallelization Using Reducers 4. Metaprogramming with Macros 5. Composing Transducers 6. Exploring Category Theory 7. Programming with Logic 8. Leveraging Asynchronous Tasks 9. Reactive Programming 10. Testing Your Code 11. Troubleshooting and Best Practices A. References
Index

Diving into logic programming

In Clojure, logic programming can be done using the core.logic library (https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/). This library is a port of miniKanren, which is a domain-specific language for logic programming. miniKanren defines a set of simple constructs for creating logical relations and generating results from them.

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miniKanren was originally implemented in the Scheme programming language. You can find out more about miniKanren at http://minikanren.org/.

A program written using logic programming can be thought of as a set of logical relations. Logical relations are the elementary building blocks of logic programming, just as functions are for functional programming. The terms relation and constraint are used interchangeably to refer to a logical relation. The core.logic library is in fact an implementation of constraint-based logic programming.

A relation can be thought of as a function that returns a goal, and a goal can either be a success or a failure...

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