2010/12/8 Surgo <morgon.kan...@gmail.com> > > (rest anything) returns a seq, by definition. It's not about Strings, > it's > > the contract of rest. A String is not a seq, but it's viewable as a seq, > in > > which case each element of the seq will be a character of the String. > > > > Note that this is not particular to String, but to almost any clojure > > datastructure : > > > > (rest [1 2 3]) doesn't return a vector either, but a seq: (2 3) > > > > etc. > > > > You seem to want to not use seq abstractions, but String manipulation > > abstractions, here. > > That's a fair criticism. I suppose that I'm not necessarily looking > for specifically String manipulation abstractions (I can just do a > (.substr "abc" 1) to get "bc" as a String after all), but rather > looking for an abstraction that takes something that's addressable as > a sequence and returns it in the same format or type instead of a seq. > > No such builtin that I'm aware of.
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