Exercism: "Meetup in Clojure"

This is my solution to the Meetup problem in Clojure.

This is the first version:


To make it more interesting I decided to implement the date logic myself instead of using a Date library.

What I really didn't like about this version was that I had to generate one by one a lot of functions.

I commented in my solution that I wasn't happy with the result and that I would love to find out a way to dynamically generate all the functions that the tests were using.

Yesterday I received a nitpick from moog just saying:

"intern is your friend"

So I started to google a way to use intern to solve my problem. After a while I found this post: Metaprogramming with Clojure explaining how to use intern to dynamically generate bindings in a given namespace.

I had to do several trials in the REPL and remember to force the evaluation of a sequence with doall before getting it to work using map and a list comprehension.

This is the new version in which I managed to remove the clutter by dynamically generating all the functions that the tests use (look at the two calls to doall nearly at the end of the code). It is around 30 lines shorter:



I'm glad because I've learned about a lot of new Clojure functions, symbol, resolve, name, intern and doall, and also used a list comprehension with for.

I'd like to thank moog for giving me a passage into a new Clojure territory.

You can nitpick my solution here or see all the exercises I've done so far in this repository.