The primary suggestion I'd make here is to replace the doseq/reset! construction in your main loop with reduce using a hash-map accumulator representing each value you are updating with a separate key. This isn't just more idiomatic, it also performs better.
Instead of: (let [hexagrams (atom (sorted-map)) state (atom :do-nothing) current-hexagram (atom {})] (doseq [line (line-seq rdr)] (let [state-machine (@state PRETTY-STATE-MACHINE) line-match (re-matches (:regex state-machine) line) [new-state new-hexagram] ((:handler state-machine) line-match @current-hexagram)] (reset! state new-state) (reset! current-hexagram new-hexagram) (swap! hexagrams assoc (:king-wen-number new-hexagram) new-hexagram)))) something like: (reduce (fn [acc line] (let [{:keys [state hexagrams current-hexagram]} acc state-machine (state PRETTY-STATE-MACHINE) line-match (re-matches (:regex state-machine) line) [new-state new-hexagram] ((:handler state-machine) line-match current-hexagram)] {:state new-state :current-hexagram new-hexagram :hexagrams (assoc (:king-wen-number new-hexagram) new-hexagram)})) (line-seq rdr)) as a more minor issue, we idiomatically use [a b] instead of (vector a b) On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:16 AM AndyK <andy.kri...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, > > i'm looking for some feedback on how i've used Clojure to do some file > parsing > still getting the hang of Clojure ways of thinking and i'd love to hear > any advice on how to improve what i've done > for example, i'm guessing the way i've used cond blocks is a bit sketchy - > at that point, i was kind of in a just-get-it-done mindset > > the file being parsed is here > > https://github.com/AndyKriger/i-ching/blob/master/clojure/resources/i-ching.html > > the code doing the parsing is here > > https://github.com/AndyKriger/i-ching/blob/master/clojure/src/i_ching/parser.clj > > the output is here (a browser JSON viewer is advised) > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AndyKriger/i-ching/master/clojure/resources/i-ching.json > > thank you for any help > a > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.