This is a reasonable idea, and I would find it useful as well.
However, it might be easier (and more appropriate) to make tagging a
feature of the documentation website that has come up here.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Mark Volkmann
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>
> Sometimes it can be time consuming for someone new to Clojure, like
> myself, to find an existing function that does what they need. I think
> this would be easier if the standard functions were grouped in some
> meaningful way. For example, all these functions retrieve items from a
> sequence: first, second, rest, take, leave. I'm sure I omitted many.
>
> Could function metadata be used to help with this? What if functions
> had a piece of metadata named "categories". Each function could be in
> any number of categories. There could be function similar to find-doc
> that finds all the functions in a given category. The hardest part
> might be coming up with good category names.
>
> --
> R. Mark Volkmann
> Object Computing, Inc.
>
> >
>

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