On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Michael Gardner <gardne...@gmail.com>wrote:
> This is a sore spot that has been discussed many times on this list[1]. > The short version is that many people agree that the name "contains?" is > misleading to newcomers, but according to Rich it's not changing any time > soon[2]. What you want for linear searches is 'some (as mentioned in the > doc for 'contains?). > > Also, why are you quoting your vectors (e.g. '[:a :b :c] instead of just > [:a :b :c])? > I accidentally quoted those in my repl tries and I ended up recalling the last variant (Ctrl+Up in repl) when I tried the 1 3 2 params. > > [1] Most recently, > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/wNFdG11zMMo/OC9ezSn9nRAJ > [2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/bSrSb61u-_8/3-wjAkJ4VJgJ > Thank you for the links Michael. " Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant 9/3/12 'contains?' tests if a key is in a collection. Vector is an associative data structure, with keys being indexes. A vector of length 3 has the key 2, but not key 3. " According to this, can a vector have keys that are not numbers? like :a , if not, then wouldn't it make more sense that (contains? [:a :b :c] :a) would throw ? It's probably just me. Thanks. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Please correct me if I'm wrong or incomplete, even if you think I'll subconsciously hate it. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
