BTW if you're interested in Specter, Brian Marick has an interesting book
which aims to teach Specter by implementing it: https://leanpub.com/specter.
I bought it but haven't had time to work through it yet, but from an
initial skimming it looks very nice.

On 3 June 2016 at 16:11, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> That's an interesting idea.  Maybe there's a way to build a set of Specter
> navigators that operate on transients, and then use its corresponding
> eqiuvalences for assoc-in, update-in, etc.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:01 PM, Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Have you looked at Specter? I actually don't know if it uses transients
>> under the hood or not, or if you can make it do so, but it seems like a
>> good fit for the data manipulation problem, at least.
>>
>> On 3 June 2016 at 14:43, Mark Engelberg <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Let's say I have an object represented by a series of nested maps:
>>>
>>> {:a {:b 1} :c {:d 2}}
>>>
>>> and now I'm going to be making a whole slew of edits to the submaps.
>>>
>>> To do this efficiently, I need to make all the levels of the map
>>> transients, because any update to the inner map also updates the outer map:
>>>
>>> (transient {:a (transient {:b 1}), :c (transient {:d 2})})
>>>
>>> and then at the end I need to do a nested persistent! operation.
>>>
>>> However, there aren't good facilities for dealing with nested
>>> transients, for example, there's no assoc!-in.  So it's a real pain to work
>>> with.
>>>
>>> Has anyone dealt with this already, and developed a suite of tools for
>>> working with nested transients, or other techniques for making batch
>>> updates efficient for deeply nested objects?
>>>
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