On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mark Volkmann <r.mark.volkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Albert Cardona <sapri...@gmail.com> wrot> >> Shawn Hoover wrote: >>> Why do we have both repeat and replicate? I can sort of keep them straight, >>> but as they only differ by arity I wonder if they can be combined... or if >>> I'm missing a subtle reason for separate names. A user in IRC threw out the >>> possibility of infinite vs. finite functions, but interleave and map seem to >>> blur that line. >>> >> >> From clojure/core.clj : >> >> (defn replicate >> "Returns a lazy seq of n xs." >> [n x] (take n (repeat x))) > > Right. Why not add a version of replicate that just takes x and have > it create an infinite, lazy sequence? Then repeat could go away.
Or replicate could go away. More likely, I think one of them could take multiple arities and make the other obsolete. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > > > -- Venlig hilsen / Kind regards, Christian Vest Hansen. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
