Your code looks fine to me. One alternative for make-students would have been
(defn make-students [teacherName n] (map #(make-student teacherName (make-student-name %) 0) (range n))) In case you're not familiar with it, the #() notation creates an anonymous function in the same way as (fn [_]), but a bit shorter; the arguments to the function are %, %2, %3, etc.; the first argument may also be %1. The arity of the anonymous function is determined by the arguments that appear in its expression. This is thus still creating a closure, but it is using it immediately. On 9 March 2013 23:49, Craig Ching <craigch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wrote some code to generate some example data for a web ui that I'm > working on and I was wondering if I could get some advice about it to ensure > I'm on the right track in my clojure learning. Basically its a very simple > program that generates a number of JSON files that contain information, I've > modeled the problem as a teacher-student relationship where each teacher is > a file that contains data about a number of students. The inputs to the > main function (gen) takes the number of teachers and the number of students > per teacher and generates sample data that can be consumed by the web ui. > What I'm looking for is: > > 1. Am I doing things the "clojure way", is my program idiomatic? If not, > advice is appreciated. > 2. Specifically the main function in the program (make-student-factory) I've > modeled as a closure and I feel like there is probably a better way to do > it, what are your thoughts on that? > > Here is the code: > > (ns teachers.core > (:require [clj-json.core :as json])) > > (defn- gen-items-json > [students] > (json/generate-string {"timestamp" 5000 > "items" students > "identifier" "id" > "label" "id" > "rc" 200 > "msg" "Data retrieved successfully."})) > > (defn- make-student > [teacherName > studentName > age] {"id" (str teacherName "!" studentName) > "TeacherName" teacherName > "StudentName" studentName > "age" age}) > > (defn- make-name [prefix n] (str prefix n)) > (defn- make-teacher-name [n] (make-name "TEACHER" n)) > (defn- make-student-name [n] (make-name "STUDENT" n)) > > (defn- make-student-factory > "Returns a function allowing you to create a number > of student definitions for the given teacher." > [teacherName] > (fn [n] > (make-student teacherName (make-student-name n) 0))) > > (defn- make-students > [teacherName n] > (let [fac (make-student-factory teacherName)] > (map fac (range n)))) > > (defn- spit-json > [teacherName n] > (println "Creating " n " students for teacher: " teacherName) > (spit (str teacherName ".json") > (gen-items-json (make-students teacherName n)))) > > (defn gen > [numTeachers numStudents] > (doseq [teacherName (map make-teacher-name (range numTeachers))] > (spit-json teacherName numStudents))) > > Thanks for any comments! > > Cheers, > Craig > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.