CLOVER

CLOVER is a smart Clojure Slack bot, currently:

1. dictionary and acronym expander
2. in Slack Clojure REPL

it scans all messages bot is joined to and DM explanations to subscribed users it never repeats the explanation, unless user re-subsribes to bot

###directives:

? ! - for any channel user will be silent if no matches or the syntax is not correct

• help -> link to GitHub:

!help
?

• explain:

!explain <term>
? <term>

• add definition:

!define <term> <separator> <description>
? <term> <separator> <description>

examples

user   > ?ETA

clover > Estimated Time of Arrival

user   > ?ETA = Event tree analysis

clover > thx for defining term ETA

REPL

'<clojure expression> ;; be careful, variables stay (but are not persistent), could be used for scripting :-)

definitions (BNF+Clojure regex)

clover-sentence ::= eval | define | explain | help
help            ::= '!help'
define          ::= ('?' | '!define') break term break '=' break #'.+'
explain         ::= ('?' | '!explain') break term break
term            ::= word space term | word
space           ::= #'\\s+'
word            ::= #'[a-zA-Z0-9&-/]+'
eval            ::= #'[\\'\u2018]' catchall
break           ::= #'\\s*'
catchall        ::= #'.*'