99 Bottles of Beer

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(defn bottles [n & [capitalize]]
  (str (if (> n 0) n (if capitalize "No more" "no more"))
    " bottle" (if (= 1 n) "" "s") " of beer" ))

(defn bot-wall [n & cap] (str (bottles n cap) " on the wall"))

(defn sing
  ;  Default is 99 times.
  ([]  (sing 99))
  ([stock]
    (doseq [i (range stock -1 -1)]
      (printf "%s, %s.\n%s.\n\n"
        (bot-wall i true) (bottles i)
        (apply str
          (if (> i 0)
            ["Take one down and pass it around, " (bot-wall (dec i))]
            ["Go to the store and buy some more, " (bot-wall stock)]
          ))))))

(sing)

Alternative Versions

Version	Author	Date	Comments	Rate
More clojurisk and human readable versio	Thomas G. Kristensen	03/08/10	0
JVM-based functional language	Ravi Chugh / Zach Tatlock	06/08/08	5

Comments

 Shamit Kumar Tomar said on 12/27/09 06:57:05

Nice and small code. Like it.

 Peter said on 01/30/10 23:11:37

Isn't printf an invocation of Java? It doesn't look "clojury" to me. Java has proprietary formatting mechanism, but it also includes the printf method for its concise syntax.

 Rayne said on 03/30/10 07:52:26

printf uses Java's format under the hood. So what? "Where Java isn't broke, Clojure doesn't fix it." is a huge Clojure philosophy. This is perfectly 'Clojury'.

 Rayne said on 03/30/10 07:53:31

Except for putting the closing parens on a separate line. That's just stupid.

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