Extending and Using Specter
Extending and Using Specter
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About the Book
Core Clojure has functions to query and update shallow or homogenous data structures. However, anyone who's worked with more complex data has written special-purpose functions to reach into or "modify" it. Specter provides an alternative to those functions: a rich language for describing paths into structures.
Specter is simple and focused enough that it doesn't need a full-fledged book. However, it's powerful enough, with enough features, that this book will save you considerable time as you get going with Specter.
The book also explains Specter's internals, for two reasons:
- You'll need to understand them in order to write extensions.
- It has an interesting design that uses broadly-applicable functional-programming patterns.
In fact, so interesting is the design that the book takes the unusual approach of teaching you Specter's API by having you implement it yourself.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Preface: Why Specter?
- Specter for selecting
- Specter for updating
- Specter for learning
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How to Use this Book
- Specter API exercises
- Specter implementation exercises
- Thanks for the comments and corrections
- Contacting me
- Changelog
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Understanding Specter By Building It
- Keywords
- Predicates
- Extensibility
- Predictive vs. runtime protocol lookup
- ALL
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