It is the same thing in Clojure. It is called a 'list comprehension' even
although for form for it starts with `for` I wouldn't worry too much about
the flatmap / mapcat stuff, as I think the translation should be quite
direct at the higher 'comprehension' level.
On Nov 26, 2015 10:12 PM, "Rastko Soskic" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am aware of philosophical differences of Scala and Clojure
> but functional programming should be a pretty common ground :)
> Thus I need help, I am trying to mimic Scala's for comprehension in
> Clojure.
>
> Hopefully someone will be able to aid me with the following (perhaps more
> familiar with Scala):
>
> Scala for comprehension is errr how to say "de-sugared" to series
> of map and flatMap calls... thus, it is possible to use plain functions in
> for-comprehension
> like:
> *val *ns: Conv[List[Int]] = *for *{ // Conv is just alias for functions
> of type B => (B, A)
> x <- int // int is function again of type Conv
> y <- int
> xs <- ints(x) // this is just sequence of numbers
> } *yield *xs.map(_ * y)
>
> I don't need all the nuts and bolts, just some guideline for achieving
> something similar
> in Clojure.
>
> I am not lazy :) I've already eagerly researched a bit and got to this: Scala
> for-comprehension to Clojure
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25655132/how-to-convert-this-map-flatmap-into-a-for-comprehension-in-clojure>
>
> But as you can see that is not really about having kind of generator
> function which is wrapped into flatMap
> call. Perhaps this is not in Clojure's spirit at all, perhaps there is
> some Clojure idiom to achieve something similar.
>
> Any tip, suggestion, critic is welcome and appreciated.
>
> If someone is wondering how in the world I came up to this, I am doing
> some f-p exercises which I've got Scala solution for
> however I am not very interested in Scala and I am doing Clojure so I just
> need to grasp concepts...
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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