On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Benny Tsai <benny.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 22, 11:42 am, Ken Wesson <kwess...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't think Clojure has that. Closest is
>>
>> (let [[f & rst] [1 2 3 4 5]
>>       l (last rst)
>>       m (butlast rst)]
>>   [f m l])
>>
>> Output is [1 (2 3 4) 5]
>>
>> Obviously, using the last element is non-lazy. It may well be that in
>> cases where you'd want to do this you might prefer another data
>> representation.
>
> I can imagine some scenarios where it would be nice to do this to
> sequences.  I guess for now, if those should come up in Clojure, we'll
> just have to jump through a few more hoops.  Thank you Ken.

You're welcome. Sorry I couldn't be of greater help. If you want, I
could throw together a quickie macro for grabbing a few items from
either end of a seq.

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