On Aug 25, 2013, at 5:42 PM, ngieschen wrote:
> 
> mapcat's signature is (f & colls) which indicates to me I should be able to 
> so something like (mapcat #(list (inc %)) [1 2 3] [4 5 6]). That is, doesn't 
> the & indicate that I can pass in a variable number of colls? However, if I 
> do, it crashes and burns, since internally it's calling (apply map #(list 
> (inc %)) '([1 2 3] '[4 5 6])), which, as expected, throws an ArityException.
> 
> So, am I missing something or is mapcat's signature wrong? It seems to me it 
> should be (f colls) and not (f & colls).

mapcat is happy with a variable number of args, but the function that you're 
mapping down those multiple args doesn't have the right arity.

Try:

(mapcat #(list (inc %1) (inc %2)) [1 2 3] [4 5 6])

 -Lee

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