def - shared assignment

(def mangoes 3)
(def sally "Hello, I am Sally and I think Clojure is lots of fun")
(def total (+ 1 2 3 4 5))

Assign your name to your favourite thing

Type an assignment expression using the def function into the REPL.

Use your name and assign it to a string that describes one of your favourite things (that you are happy to share)

On the next line, type the name used in the assignment to see the value your name points to.

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Hint

Using meaningful names for your symbols will make your code easier to understand. Naming things well can be hard though.

Assign results to symbols

You can also assign the results of functions to symbols, which is very useful for calculations.

How Many Fruits do you have?

Create a def function for each type of fruit (eg. mangoes, apples, oranges).

Create another def that adds up the total number of fruit

Create another def that is the average number of fruit

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Reveal answer...

We can use def to give a name to something we already know, like a string

(def jenny-loves "Jenny loves rhubarb crumble and vanilla custard")

We can also use def to give a name to something we don't know yet, eg. a calculation.

In the following example, we use def to give names to the number of each type of fruit.

Then we use a def to define the name total-fruit and calculating the sum of mangoes and oranges.

We also use a def to define the name average-fruit-amount with the result of another calculation.

(def mangoes 4)
(def oranges 12)
(def total-fruit (+ mangoes oranges))
(def average-fruit-amount (/ total-fruit 2))
average-fruit-amount

Hint

Look at the last line, see how symbols return the value they point to.

Symbols (names we define) do not need to be in parentheses as they are a value like numbers and strings and not a function call.

Reference: Assignment def

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