I meant collection ... not sequence.

Luc P.


> Strings are character sequences,  count is a better option to stay
> within the sequence abstraction.
> 
> Lic P.
> 
> 
> > count does some type checks, but it's negligible in most cases as I already 
> > said. len can give a clear intention than count somtimes.
> > 
> > I'm not suggesting that it should be included in clojure.string, but if 
> > count is currently not preferred over .length, including it can be a good 
> > option.
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:50:04 PM UTC+9, Baishampayan Ghose wrote:
> > >
> > > What'd clojure.string/len do any differently than clojure.core/count? 
> > > count already provides does the fastest possible thing for strings. 
> > > ~BG 
> > >
> > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Alice <doff...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> > > wrote: 
> > > > Which one is preferred? 
> > > > 
> > > > .length needs to be type hinted, so more verbose. 
> > > > The performance penalty of count is negligible in most cases. 
> > > > 
> > > > I think including len in clojure.string would be a good idea because 
> > > it's 
> > > > used so often. 
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