You want either `reduce` or `loop` as the control flow construct, and `conj` for appending items to a collection (without resorting to mutability). Have a look at them, they're pretty well covered in the available books, tutorials etc.
Hope it helps - Victor On Friday, February 15, 2013 12:11:24 AM UTC+1, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I have a loop over a function that is accumulating a list of database keys > for later use. But it is primarily doing other processing and returning a > collection of processed/filtered records. I'd normally just PUSH the ids > and records onto a list in Common Lisp, or even LOOP... COLLECT into 2 > lists. In the Clojure way, how would I build this auxiliary list without > using a mutable collection? Would it make sense to return a map or some > other structure from the processing function that would contain both the > processed record as well as any id of interest? I could accumulate this > result, then filter the map into 2 collections - one of processed records > and the other a subset of id's of interest. But that seems kludgy > commingling the results like that. -- -- 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/groups/opt_out.
