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authorJulien M'Poy <julien.mpoy@gmail.com>2017-11-08 13:29:24 +0100
committerJulien M'Poy <julien.mpoy@gmail.com>2017-11-08 13:29:24 +0100
commit5e81853768c0f3cc55c05e0dfec18773045df952 (patch)
treeb62c3fb0bfc6de3318e962b330e163f3d65cdfa6 /edn.html.markdown
parent20893f5d83b4f7a1585bac9e7656d6af46183262 (diff)
parent6ce71c56d6affb57a3537a2732485a4918306d4b (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
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diff --git a/edn.html.markdown b/edn.html.markdown
index 04346eb8..f47853f0 100644
--- a/edn.html.markdown
+++ b/edn.html.markdown
@@ -44,13 +44,13 @@ false
:cheese
:olives
-; Symbols are used to represent identifiers. They start with #.
+; Symbols are used to represent identifiers.
; You can namespace symbols by using /. Whatever precedes / is
-; the namespace of the name.
-#spoon
-#kitchen/spoon ; not the same as #spoon
-#kitchen/fork
-#github/fork ; you can't eat with this
+; the namespace of the symbol.
+spoon
+kitchen/spoon ; not the same as spoon
+kitchen/fork
+github/fork ; you can't eat with this
; Integers and floats
42
@@ -84,22 +84,26 @@ false
#MyYelpClone/MenuItem {:name "eggs-benedict" :rating 10}
-; Let me explain this with a clojure example. Suppose I want to transform that
+; Let me explain this with a Clojure example. Suppose I want to transform that
; piece of EDN into a MenuItem record.
(defrecord MenuItem [name rating])
-; To transform EDN to clojure values, I will need to use the built in EDN
-; reader, edn/read-string
+; defrecord defined, among other things, map->MenuItem which will take a map
+; of field names (as keywords) to values and generate a user.MenuItem record
-(edn/read-string "{:eggs 2 :butter 1 :flour 5}")
+; To transform EDN to Clojure values, I will need to use the built-in EDN
+; reader, clojure.edn/read-string
+
+(clojure.edn/read-string "{:eggs 2 :butter 1 :flour 5}")
; -> {:eggs 2 :butter 1 :flour 5}
-; To transform tagged elements, define the reader function and pass a map
-; that maps tags to reader functions to edn/read-string like so
+; To transform tagged elements, pass to clojure.edn/read-string an option map
+; with a :readers map that maps tag symbols to data-reader functions, like so
-(edn/read-string {:readers {'MyYelpClone/MenuItem map->menu-item}}
- "#MyYelpClone/MenuItem {:name \"eggs-benedict\" :rating 10}")
+(clojure.edn/read-string
+ {:readers {'MyYelpClone/MenuItem map->MenuItem}}
+ "#MyYelpClone/MenuItem {:name \"eggs-benedict\" :rating 10}")
; -> #user.MenuItem{:name "eggs-benedict", :rating 10}
```