Clojure for Domain-specific Languages. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Names: D. Kelker, Ryan
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: An Overview of Domain-Specific Languages with Clojure; Domain-specific languages (DSL); Limited scope; Syntax; Using a DSL; Popular DSLs; A contract between language and domain; The language of trust; Internal versus External DSLs; External DSLs; Internal DSL; Clojure libraries; Characteristics of a Clojure library; The current state of Clojure libraries; Database domains; HTML domain; Formative; Hiccup; Mustache; Clostache; ECMA/JavaScript domain; ClojureScript. Comparing ClojureScript and JavaScriptAudio domain; Music-as-data; Overtone; Image domains; Summary; Chapter 2: Design Concepts with Clojure; Every function is a little program; A pure function; Floor to roof development; Each function only does one thing; Patterns for success; DRY; KISS; YAGNI; Writing Clojure; Spacing and alignment; Syntax; Name conventions; Collection types; Summary; Chapter 3: Clojure Editing and Project Creation; The origin of Emacs and its usage; Installing and setting up Emacs24; Setting up Emacs; Creating and editing CLJ files in Emacs. Running a Clojure REPL inside EmacsThe nrepl.el Emacs extension; Leiningen and project management; Installing Leiningen and starting a project; Including Clojure or Java libraries in your project; Compiling your project to a Java JAR; Leiningen; Summary; Chapter 4: Features, Functions, and Macros; Namespaces; Java inside Clojure; Immutability; Dynamic objects; Metadata; Lazy sequences; Destructuring; Functions and arity; Anonymous functions; Macros; Summary; Chapter 5: Collections and Sequencing; Collections; Collections by example; Vectors; Vectors by example; Lists; Lists by example; Maps. Maps by exampleSets; Sets by example; Sequences; Sequences by example; :let, :while, and :when; Summary; Chapter 6: Assignment and Concurrency; Variables; Transients; Atoms; Agents; Refs; Futures; Promises; Summary; Chapter 7: Flow Control, Error Handling, and Math; Flow control; Object comparison; Casting; Error handling; Arithmetic; Addition and subtraction; Multiplication; Division; Remainder and modulus; Increment and decrement; Greatest and least values; Equality; Summary; Chapter 8: Methods for Abstraction; Creating and constructing classes. Creating interfaces and implementing them with deftypeUsing records, protocols, and type extensions; Overriding methods with reify and proxy; Working with reify; Implementing interface methods with proxy; Custom symbol definitions with macros; Definitions using records; Making definitions using proxy; Making definitions using deftype; Multimethod polymorphism; Creating the Bottle and Customer classes; Testing the customer-drink methods; Relationships with hierarchies; Resolving parent relationship conflicts; Assertion testing with metadata; Input constraints with :pre.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.133; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- LISP; Clojure (Computer program language); Domain-specific programming languages; Clojure (Computer program language); Domain-specific programming languages; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1306212723; 9781306212724; 9781782166511; 1782166513; 9781782166504; 1782166505
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