On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:29 PM, jweiss <jeffrey.m.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm no expert on this, but i'll take a crack at it. > > I think it's because sets don't (necessarily) impose any order, so > there's no concept of "first" or "nth". So destructuring would > essentially be assigning a random item to x, or for join, joining them > in random order. > > I'm curious what the use case is here.
One obvious one would be any commutative, associative operation. (apply + some-set) won't care about the order of the arguments, for instance. -- 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
