I believe it's for performance reasons. Strings in java are immutable, so they use the StringBuilder(mutable) to achieve better performance.
On Jan 5, 12:18 am, John Szakmeister <[email protected]> wrote: > I was looking at a commit that updated a docstring for str/join, which > enticed me to take a look at the implementation. I was kind of > surprised to see that it wasn't: > (apply str (interpose sep coll)) > > I'm just curious about the developer was thinking. Here's a link to the code: > <https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f30995c86056959abca53d0ca35dc...> > > Thanks! > > -John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
