Or you could write your own custom version of update-in that recognizes the keyword ::last to have a special meaning, so you could do:
(update-in [1 2 ::last 1 ::last] ...) On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Jozef Wagner <[email protected]>wrote: > Calling count on vector is a constant time operation, so I think (dec > (count v)) is an acceptable and even idiomatic in this case. Make it a > function if it is too verbose for you. > > (let [assoc-last #(assoc % (dec (count %)) %2) ] (update-in [1 [1 2 [1 2 > 3]]] [1 2] #(assoc-last % 5))) > > Jozef > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Andy Smith > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> (1) >> I'm sure there must be a simpler way to update the last element of a >> vector other than dec and count : >> >> (let [xs [1 2 3]] (assoc xs (dec (count xs)) 4)) >> >> This gets messy when updating vectors in nested data structures : >> >> (update-in [1 [1 2 [1 2 3]]] [1 2] #(assoc % (dec (count %)) 5)) >> >> So, what am I doing wrong? >> >> P.S. I know I could reverse the order of the data in the lists (i.e. >> probably changing to lists rather than vectors for conj-ing purposes), but >> im interested in vectors specifically. >> >> Thanks >> >> Andy >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> 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 [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
