Change design of meetup problem

[exercism]

Change design of meetup problem

[verdammelt]

I think I remember liking the meta-programming of this one :). But I'm willing to change it. I must have overlooked something - but could you point me to the new README for this exercise? I'd like to see the new API so I can change the tests.

[kytrinyx]

The README doesn't say anything about the API, just the general problem that is being solved.

• https://github.com/exercism/x-common/blob/master/meetup.md
• https://github.com/exercism/x-common/blob/master/meetup.yml#L2

Actually, it doesn't really explain that all too well, either, come to think of it.

I don't think the metaprogramming itself is a bad thing, necessarily, but I do remember that the Ruby exercise had a terrible API that I would never want in production, and many other languages had copied it.

[verdammelt]

Looking at the change to the xruby meetup tests & example code I can see
what you are talking about more clearly.

The old API were functions such as 'monteenth' or 'tuesteenth'. I
copied the Clojure tests which also had this sort of API.

I'll do some thinking about what would be a better API in the Lisp
world. Probably something similar to the new Ruby API but without the
explicit objects.