The reason for typing so much is maintainability. I'll have to come
back to this code again and again over a period of years and there's
no chance in heck I'll remember anything I did before. So I've learned
that using clearer variable names, even with a little extra typing, is
a price worth paying.
On Feb 17, 10:46 am, David Nolen <dnolen.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (defn months_in_business
> "The total number of months we will be in the business of renting out
> our home"
> [:keys [Months_To_Find_Tenant Months_In_Lease Lease_Cycles
> Months_To_Sell]]
> (-> (+ Months_To_Find_Tenant Months_In_Lease) (* Lease_Cycles) (+
> Months_To_Sell)))
>
> ->
>
> I have no idea why you want to type this much:
>
> (defn months-in-business
> [:keys [mtft mil lc mts]
> (-> (+ mtft mil) (* lc) (+ mts))
>
> But how do we know what these abbreviations mean while we develop our
> application? Write a couple of helper functions:
>
> (defn map-to-humane-repr [m]
> (let [ok (keys m)
> vs (vals m)]
> (zipmap (map mappings ok) vs)))
>
> (def *dummy*
> {:mtft 1,
> :mil 24,
> :lc 5,
> :mts 12})
>
> (map-to-humane-repr *dummy*) ->
>
> {"Months to Sell" 12,
> "Lease Cycles" 5,
> "Months In Lease" 24,
> "Months To Find Tenant" 1}
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