Thanks Dan,
One benefit is compile time safety and the refactoring I mentioned.
But yes, I am coming around to the notion of just using raw keywords...
On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 10:49:33 AM UTC+1, Dan Kersten wrote:
>
> I've personally always used keywords. I don't see any value in aliasing
> :foo to foo. For navigating nested maps, get-in, update-in and assoc-in
> with keywords seem natural and practical to me.
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 10:43, Colin Yates <colin...@gmail.com <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> (This has been discussed before but as this is fairly subjective I am
>> interested in whether people's opinion has changed)
>>
>> What are people's experiences around using keywords or defined accessors
>> for navigating data structures in Clojure (assuming the use of maps)? Do
>> people prefer using "raw" keywords or do people define accessors.
>>
>> For example, given {:my-property 10} would people inline "my-property" or
>> define a (defn my-property [m] (:my-property m))? If you use keywords then
>> do you alias them (i.e. (def my-property :my-property)?
>>
>> My experience is that accessors become painful and restrictive really
>> quickly (navigating nested maps for example) so keywords are the way to go.
>> I tend to have a domain.clj which documents my domain and defines all the
>> important abstractions (i.e. (def my-property :my-property). I find this
>> very useful, combined with marginalia for documentation purposes. It also
>> offers some aid in refactoring as multiple abstractions might resolve to
>> the same keyword (i.e. value-group and bracket-group might resolve to
>> :group).
>>
>> But, to be blunt, it can be a little cumbersome. I also refer :as the
>> namespace, so instead of (get-in m [:a :b]) it is (get-in m [dom/a dom/b]).
>>
>> What are your thoughts (and any other hints/tips for maintaining large
>> Clojure code bases?)
>>
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