I've continued working on the Mars Rovers kata code that I first implemented using multimethods.
In this version I've used protocols instead of multimethods.
Since I had previously distributed the code in several different name spaces, I only had to modify the rover name space.
The rest of the code keeps just using the same functions of the rover name space: the rover factory and the four commands rotate-left, rotate-right, move-forwards and move-backwards.
However, the implementation of the rover name space is quite different now.
This is the new code:
I've defined two protocols Rotable and Movable which are implemented by new four defined records: FacingNorth, FacingSouth, FacingWest and FacingEast.
Depending on the value of the rover direction, the oriented-rover factory function, creates an instance of one of those records.
When one of the command functions (rotate-left, rotate-right, move-forwards or move-backwards) is called, it calls a function with the same name passing it the result of calling the oriented-rover factory on the rover.
This call is dispatched on the type of the record the call to oriented-rover returns, so that, in the end, the right implementation of the function gets called.
This has been a nice exercise to explore and practice with protocols.
I'll continue exploring other ways to solve this kata with Clojure.
You can find the code in this GitHub repository.
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Update: I continued working in this code on Mars Rover using a finite state machine implemented with mutually recursive functions and trampoline
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