Hi,

I want to sort a set/map according to an ordering given by a seq of 
elements - e.g.

(def some-order [:u :a :e :i :o])
(def some-order-fn (order-fn some-order))
(sorted-set-by some-order-fn :a :e :i :o :u) ; --> #{:u :a :e :i :o}

This is what I came up with:

(defn order-fn [ks]
  #(- (.indexOf ks %1)
      (.indexOf ks %2)))

But then one may want to replace .indexOf for some other ord-function- like 
this:

(defn order-fn
  ([ks] (order-fn ks #(.indexOf %1 %2)))
  ([ks ord-fn]
     #(- (ord-fn ks %1)
         (ord-fn ks %2))))

Now we may force the elements to be present in ks:

(defn order-fn
  ([ks] (order-fn ks #(.indexOf %1 %2)))
  ([ks ord-fn]
     (letfn
         [(-ord-fn [e]
            (let [o (ord-fn ks e)]
              (if (> o -1) o
                  (throw
                   (RuntimeException.
                    (format "'%s' not found in %s" e ks))))))]
       #(compare (-ord-fn %1)
                 (-ord-fn %2)))))

Is there something like this in clojure.core already or a more elegant 
implementation?

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