# From Clojure to Janet
## How to convert files

### Comments
`% s ; r # <esc>`


### called keyword property access
Use a macro:
- Select `\ \( : ret <esc>`
- Record the macro: `Q n <esc> v e c get <esc> e e a <space> <esc> p <esc> Q`
- Then just `q` until you've changed everything

### Chars don't exist
- \char -> "char", e.g.
- \newline -> "\n", etc.
- \a -> "a"

### Use mutable arrays and tables
Where data structures are mutable, add `@`s.

### Sets & tables
Sets don't exist in Janet. Use tables with values set to `true`.

### Strings -> number literals
- Clj uses `edn/read-string`; Janet uses `parse-all`

### `loop` -> `defn recur`
- Clj's `loop` is very different from Janet's `loop`
- As a quick and dirty workaround, change it to an interior recursive function
- Janet has tail calls, so this is nearly as efficient (paying the overhead for creating the function)
- An optimization is to pull out these functions and declare them at the toplevel

### current-char


### Straight replacements:
- nth -> get
- assoc -> put
- conj -> array/push
- str -> string
- substr -> slice