Re: DISCUSS: clojure.contrib.java-utils/as-str

[Stephen C. Gilardi]

On Apr 8, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote:

Changed to as-str (r654).

Very nice!



Here's a proposed implementation:

(defn as-str

  or string representation. (as-str nil) returns the empty string. With

  args."
  {:tag String}
  ([] "")
  ([x]
     (if (instance? clojure.lang.Named x)
       (name x)
       (str x)))
  ([x & ys]
     (let [sb (StringBuilder. #^String (as-str x))]
       (doseq [y ys]
         (.append sb (as-str y)))
       (.toString sb))))

Comments welcome.

--Steve

Should we extend as-str to any number of arguments like its close cousin str? "With no args, returns the empty string. With one arg, returns its name more than one arg, returns the concatenation of the as-str values of the

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