If there's a better place to ask this kind of question, please point me in the right direction!
I'm learning Clojure, and part of the project I'm making is a command language: the user can type commands at the application in something like a REPL, and have a dialog with the application. I want to dispatch to a function that carries out the command based on the first word of the command; the function then receives the remaining words in the command, and can do with them what it likes. So I'm going to need a map, something like { "dothis" #'commands/dothis, "dothat" #'commands/dothat ...} The question is, how best to build up that map? I'd like to define a command like this: (command "dothis" "Documentation string" [argv] ....) and have (command) define the function and add the entry to the map. I can think of all kinds of ways to do this. I could define (def command-map {}) and then have (command) rebind it: ... (def command-map (assoc command-map name function)) but I know that's frowned upon. I could make command-map contain an atom, and use (swap!) to update the atom, but really, the mapping isn't going to change at run-time. I could make (command) a macro, so that it's really updating command-map at the top-level, but that seems cheesy. Or, I could make (command) define the function as a public function in the 'commands namespace, which would be reserved for that purpose, and attach the command name, e.g., "dothis" to the function as metadata. Then I could build the map by querying the namespace using (ns-publics). Is there is a normal way to do this kind of thing? -- 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/d/optout.