Clojure REPL will display nil for anything that causes side-effect?
I had no idea!

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:24 AM, Krukow <karl.kru...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, the result of the computation is (nil nil nil nil), a side-effect
> is printing:
> Happy Birthday To You
> Happy Birthday To You
> Happy Birthday Dear XXX
> Happy Birthday To You.
>
> I thought you wanted to print since the Scala and Java programs
> print.
>
> If you want to compute, you could use
>
> (map #(str "Happy Birthday " (if (= 2 %) "Dear XXX" "To You")) (range
> 4))
>
> If you want to print, and avoid a list of nils, you could use
>
> (dotimes [i 4] (printf "Happy Birthday %s\n" (if (= 2 i) "Dear XXX"
> "To You")))
>
> which is essentially the Java version.
>
> Incidentally,
> user> (count "(dotimes [i 4] (printf \"Happy Birthday %s\n\" (if (= 2
> i) \"Dear XXX\" \"To You\")))")
> 78
>
> /Karl
> /Karl
> >
>



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