On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Sean Devlin wrote:
> Okay, I'm sure this has come up before. I was just wondering if
> anyone knew why the regex literal doesn't implement IFn?
>
> At first glance it seems like the following would be useful:
>
> user=>(#"\d{3}" "123")
> true
>
> This is defined as...
> user=>(not (nil? (re-matches #"\d{3}" "123")))
> true
>
> What am I missing?
The #" form produces Java Pattern objects:
user=> (class #"foo")
java.util.regex.Pattern
user=>
...which of course aren't IFns.
- Chas
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