Beautiful code

I just took the time to start reading Tom Faulhaber's description of simple webhooks with Clojure and Ring. A mere two pages in I hit some staggeringly beautiful code.

I hope Tom won't mind me quoting it here:

(defn hook-server
  "Build a simple webhook server on the specified
   port. Invokes ring to fill a blocking queue, 
   whose elements are processed by handle-payload."
  [port]
  (doseq [payload
          (fill-queue
            (fn [fill]
              (ring.jetty/run {:port port}
                              (partial app fill)))
            :queue-size 10)]
    (handle-payload payload)))

Go read the article and figure out the control flow there. Once you get it, wow. Defining an app in terms of a sequence generated by incoming requests.

This is why I love programming as a profession.

Posted at 2009-09-18 14:44:00 by Richard Newman • Link to Beautiful code