Thanks Rich, I'll take a look. By the way, Clojure is a beautiful and enriching thing. Keep up the great work.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Jul 7, 5:31 pm, Garth Sheldon-Coulson <g...@mit.edu> wrote: > > Hello Clojurians--- > > > > I'm about to begin writing a Clojure wrapper for a Java data structure > > that's amenable to seq-ability. > > > > 1) I'd like to implement the ISeq interface. Could someone point me to > some > > up-to-date documentation on what I need to implement? Sorry if this is > > covered somewhere obvious... I couldn't find it. > > > > Stu's book and the web site seem to indicate that "first," "cons," and > > "rest" are the important things (are they all?). Yet I see discussions > > online about, e.g., "next," and looking inside clojure.lang.ISeq I see > cons, > > first, more, and next. Am I right in assuming that Clojure constructs > (rest > > coll) out of some combination of these? Could someone shed some light on > > this? > > > > 2) Can one enhance the performance of the seq library by implementing > more > > than the basics (i.e. more than [first cons rest] or [first cons more > > next])? Or is the whole idea that the entire edifice is built on just the > > basics? > > > > 3) How stable is the interface at this point? > > > > You should have a look at clojure.lang.StringSeq and > clojure.lang.IteratorSeq. Deriving from ASeq as they do is the way to > go. The interface is stable, and no, there are no other optimizations > needed. > > Rich > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
