[v3] Implement new Concept Exercise: `multi-arity functions`
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100
Research direction
Read docs/concept-exercises.md, docs/rationale-for-v3.md, docs/features-of-v3.md, and watch the linked anatomy video first. Then create the listed files under languages/clojure/exercises/concept/, using the learning objectives and out-of-scope topics as the content boundaries; done means the complete exercise exists without representer or analyzer changes.
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Description
This issue describes how to implement the multi-arity functions concept exercise for the Clojure track.
Getting started
Please please please read the docs before starting. Posting PRs without reading these docs will be a lot more frustrating for you during the review cycle, and exhaust Exercism's maintainers' time. So, before diving into the implementation, please read up on the following documents:
Please also watch the following video:
Goal
The goal of this exercise is to teach the student how multi-arity functions are implemented in Clojure.
Learning objectives
After completing this exercise the student will:
- Know how to define functions taking different numbers of parameters (arities)
- How to invoke them
- Creating a default value by having one arity call another
Out of scope
- Variadic functions
- Polymorphism
Concepts
functionsdefault-argumentsevaluationmultiple-dispatchreturn-values
Prerequisites
basic-functionsrepllists
Resources to refer to
Hints
After
Representer
This exercise does not require any modifications to the track's representer.
Analyzer
This exercise does not require any modifications to the analyzer.
Implementing
To implement a concept exercise, the following files must be created:
languages
└── clojure
└── exercises
└── concept
└── <SLUG>
├── .docs
| ├── instructions.md
| ├── introduction.md
| ├── hints.md
| └── after.md (optional)
├── .meta
| |── design.md
| └── Example.clj
├── <NAME>.clj
└── <NAME>_test.clj
Help
If you have any questions while implementing the exercise, please post the questions as comments in this issue.
- Dominant language
- Clojure
- Stars
- 177
- Forks
- 159
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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