On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:20 PM, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems to treat strings as it does vectors, seeing if an index is in
> bounds or not. It doesn't treat symbols as anything though.
> The clojure.contrib.seq-utils/includes? function gives true for "foo" and


I did not want to make this a discussion about contains? per se, but
about the general design philosophy about dealing with type erros
(which I think is a bigger issue, IMHO).

But it is a bit difficult to avoid noticing that contains? is a bit
unintuitive, so to say.

Even with vectors
(contains? [1 5] 5) being false sounds somewhat strange.

I understand the initial intent, like this:
(contains? {'a 5} 5) being false

But the end result with strings and vectors is a tad unintuitive...

Tiago

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