[v3] Implement new Concept Exercise: variadic-functions

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
clojure

Research direction

Start by reading docs/concept-exercises.md, docs/rationale-for-v3.md, and docs/features-of-v3.md, then review the linked Anatomy of a Concept Exercise video. Create the variadic-functions structure under languages/clojure/exercises/concept, including the .docs files, .meta/design.md, .meta/Example.clj, the exercise source, and its test; done means it teaches the listed objectives without representer or analyzer changes.

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Description

This issue describes how to implement the variadic-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 to use variadic functions in Clojure.

Learning objectives

The student will learn:

  • That functions may also define a variable number of parameters
  • Usage of &
  • Examples in clojure.core such as str and format

Out of scope

  • Multi-arity functions
  • Creating named parameters through destructuring args

Concepts

  • default-arguments
  • evaluation
  • functions
  • rest-parameters

Prerequisites

  • basic-functions

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 track's 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.

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