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[Feature Request] Command for evaluating top level form to comment #349

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PEZ opened this issue Sep 26, 2019 · 0 comments
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[Feature Request] Command for evaluating top level form to comment #349

PEZ opened this issue Sep 26, 2019 · 0 comments

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PEZ commented Sep 26, 2019

To better support the Design Journal suggested in this REPL Driven Development Guide, Calva should make it easy to evaluate the top level form and add the result as a ;; comment.

Here's the Documentation First:

Evaluate to comment

Calva has two commands for evaluating code and add as a comment in the file being edited:

  1. Evaluate current form, and append a comment with the result, ctrl+alt+c, c
  2. Evaluate current top level form, and append a comment with the result, ctrl+alt+c, ctrl+space

As with all commands for evaluating the top level form, they also work inside (comment) forms. This makes it smooth to build a Design Journal like this at the end of your file:

(comment
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; REPL Experiments
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;; Generating a data structure to represet the game board
  
;; We could just hard code the board as follows, although that limits us to a specific size of board:
  [[:empty :empty :empty]
   [:empty :empty :empty]
   [:empty :empty :empty]]

;; To create a row is simple to do using the repeat function to generate 3 :empty keywords and return them as a list
  (repeat 3 :empty)
;; => (:empty :empty :empty)
  
;; To make this a vector we can just wrap that in a vec function
  (vec (repeat 3 :empty))
;; => [:empty :empty :empty]
  
;; To create three rows we just repeat the code above 3 times
  
  (vec (repeat 3 (vec (repeat 3 :empty))))
;; => [[:empty :empty :empty] [:empty :empty :empty] [:empty :empty :empty]]
  
;; And so on, and so forth
  ...)
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