Disclaimer: I’ve never done *any* Clojure programming, but I’m curious.
Here’s how I may model an on-screen rectangle in JavaScript, a classless
object oriented language:
let createRectangle = function (x, y, width, height) {
return {
get upperLeft() {
return [x, y];
},
get lowerRight() {
return [x + width, y + height];
},
get area() {
return width * height;
}
};
};
let r = createRectangle(0, 0, 50, 20);
let s = createRectangle(10, 20, 40, 5);
console.log(r.upperLeft, r.lowerRight, r.area);
console.log(s.upperLeft, s.lowerRight, s.area);
Now I run the profiler. I discover that in the inner loop of my program
there are lots of calls needing the upper left and the lower right
coordinates. So I change the inner workings of the object to store these
instead:
let createRectangle = function (x, y, width, height) {
let upperLeft = [x, y], lowerRight = [x + width, y + height];
return {
get upperLeft() {
return upperLeft;
},
get lowerRight() {
return lowerRight;
},
get area() {
return (lowerRight[0] - upperLeft[0]) *
(lowerRight[1] - upperLeft[1]);
}
};
};
Boom: Now the program is twice as fast, and - what gives me great
comfort - I know that this change breaks nothing. I only had to edit the
code in *one* module. I didn’t need to think too much about efficiency
of data structures in the beginning. I could just start going, then
optimize in the end.
*Can I program in a similar way using Clojure?*
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