Recursive xforms – recursive transducers and reducers for the Clojure programming language.
Clojure 1.7 introduced transducers, which are functions that take a reducer function and returns a reducer function. This in itself sounds straightforward enough, but a lot of additional complexity was added to support stateful reducers.
The ones coming from take, drop, partition-by and similar. Whereas stateful reducers were available pre 1.7, they were frowned upon; you could (usually) assume that if you could use a function for reducing, then you could use it repeatedly, without surprings results. However, as with 1.7, a reducing function cannot be assumed to be stateless anymore:
;; A transducer is reducer -> reducer, so this is a reducer, right?
user=> (def vec10 ((take 10) conj))
#'user/vec10
user=> (reduce vec10 [] (range 20))
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user=> (reduce vec10 [] (range 20))
[]In addition, there are strange mismatches between transducers and reducers, which initially does not seem to make much sense:
;; (reduce rf coll) != (transduce identity rf coll)
user=> (reduce conj (range 10))
ClassCastException java.lang.Long cannot be cast to clojure.lang.IPersistentCollection clojure.core/conj--4338 (core.clj:82)
user=> (transduce identity conj (range 10))
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;; (reduce rf (rf) coll) != (transduce identity rf coll)
(def rf-conj! (completing conj! persistent!))
user=> (reduce rf-conj! (rf-conj!) (range 10))
#object[clojure.lang.PersistentVector$TransientVector 0x2251dd42 "clojure.lang.PersistentVector$TransientVector@2251dd42"]
user=> (transduce identity rf-conj! (range 10))
[0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9]Rexf attempts to make it possible to actually call transducers yourself, by
setting up a level of indirection. In rexf, transducers take a ReducerFactory
and produces a ReducerFactory, and a ReducerFactory is a value that can
initialise a reducer by calling rexf/init on it. You can also
This is an experiment, and may or may not make sense. See Recursive Transducers for the rationale.
TODO
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