Do you know about closures? So something like:
(defn foo [arg1 arg2]
(fn [state] (do-something-with state arg1 arg2)))
- James
On 25 November 2014 at 18:55, Isaac Karth <isaacka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to build a string output system with functions that later have
> a state passed to it, so that I can write something like (output "The
> result of this example is: " (get :result)) and have it passed to a
> parsing function that takes a state and calls the functions in the list,
> something like (let [state] {:result "success"}](-> state (get
> :result))). Basically, a delayed evaluation of the functions in the list
> until they get the context later.
>
> I've gotten far enough that I can send an unevaluated list of
> single-argument functions via(defmacro output [& data] `[~@data]) but
> sending a function plus some arguments is trickier and I'm having trouble
> working out the quoting and unquoting that needs to go on.
>
> Alternately, is there a better way to solve my original problem?
> Basically, I want to have a concise and simple format to enter mostly text
> with a few functions/variables and have it evaluated in a totally different
> context later. Or maybe there's a parser or text processing library that
> would handle this better?
>
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