Exercise: are we there yet
Are we there yet?
The filter can be used to return values from a collection that return true when applying a function.
So to get all the odd values from a collection, you could use (filter odd? [1 2 3 4])
Write a function to use with filter that will remove the word "already" from the collection: ["are" "we" "already" "there" "yet"]
The function you write would take an argument that is a string from the collection
As we want to remove "already" then we need to check if the string is not equals
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Define a function that we can use with the filter function.
The function checks if the string is not the same as "already".
(defn not-already? [pattern]
(not= "already" pattern))
(filter not-already? ["are" "we" "already" "there" "yet"])
The same can be done with an in-line function
(filter (fn [pattern] (not= "already" pattern)) ["are" "we" "already" "there" "yet"])
Or the short-hand form of an inline function. The % acts as a placeholder for the function argument
(filter #(not= "already" %) ["are" "we" "already" "there" "yet"])
When to use inline function
If you are defining very simple behaviour that is only going to be used once, then an inline function is appropriate.
If you are going to call the function more than once, or there are multiple lines of code, you should use the defn function to give that function a name