On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Brian Craft <craft.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a fairly common scenario where I have a set of operations that need
> to work on two types of data (not "data types" in the clojure sense) that
> have different internal structure (i.e. maps with different keys). I could
> write a generic function that operates on both types of map. That would
> require implementing getters for each type (not sure where those would
> live).

Jim touched on this - you could have functions that "map" the two
different input data structures to a common form that the function
needs (assuming the call sites know which structure is which). But as
Brandon said, if you can give a more specific example...?
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