One aspect of your question that makes it difficult to answer is that you don't explain what the repercussions should be (in terms of synchronization) when a new applicant or job enters the pool or a new skill is attributed to an applicant. Should the job<->applicant matching function be restarted? Are you simply trying to isolate the matching algorithm from updates to the data structures?
On Mar 2, 10:34 pm, Sophie <itsme...@hotmail.com> wrote: > As a bit of a newbie to the functional + identity/state design space, > I'm struggling a bit with where to use identity constructs (refs) and > where to stay with pure functions, and could use some guidance. Pardon > me if some of my terms are a bit off. Here is a simple hypothetical > app for matching Applicants to Jobs. > > I have several Applicants, each with some set of Skills. There are > several Jobs, each with some Requirements. There is some Match > relation between Skills and the Jobs they can match. The set of > Applicants, each of their skills, and the set of Jobs can change with > time. There is a set of Jobs that each Applicant can fill, > functionally computed from applicant skills & job requirements & > Match. > > Ok, so jobs_that_an_applicant_can_fill is a pure function, I get > that. > > Do I design a single "World" ref whose state changes with time to > different worlds, so adding a new Applicant or even adding a new Skill > to an existing Applicant results in a new World value? Or is it better > to have an "Applicants" ref and a "Jobs" ref that refer to different > sets of those er.. things? > > Can each Applicant have a "skills" ref, whose state changes to > different sets of Skills? Should I design it this way? > > How do I choose? What are the trade-offs? > > Any and all guidance, insights, advice etc. welcome! > > Thanks! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
