On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Herwig Hochleitner
<hhochleit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Consider
>
> (defn find-in-tree
>  ([tree pred?]
>    (concat
>      (filter pred? tree)
>      (mapcat find-in-tree (filter sequential? tree) (repeat pred?)))))
>
> which of course is much simpler written as
>
> (defn find-in-tree
>  ([tree pred?] (filter pred? (flatten tree))))

Not quite -- these differ in the case where pred? sometimes fires for
a subtree and not just for leaves. The latter will miss all the
subtrees for which pred? returns logical true.

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