There was quite a discussion of this topic back in July if you'd like to review it: https://goo.gl/Azy8Nf
The semantic mismatch is unfortunate. Alan On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 6:47 PM, waffletower <christopherpenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I disagree, the new implementation is a subset of the code I presented. > Here is the docstring from 1.9.0-alpha14 > > (doc any?) > ------------------------- > clojure.core/any? > ([x]) > Returns true given any argument. > > There isn't a predicate function argument as in (not-any?): > > (doc not-any?) > ------------------------- > clojure.core/not-any? > ([pred coll]) > Returns false if (pred x) is logical true for any x in coll, > else true. > > A semantically consistent implementation of (any?), given the current > implementation of (not-any?) would provide a similar function prototype > where an arbitrary predicate function would evaluate against a collection. > > On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 5:05:45 PM UTC-8, James Reeves wrote: >> >> On 6 November 2016 at 23:31, waffletower <christoph...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I find the semantic of the new (any?) function to be in conflict with >>> (not-any?) and a strange addition, at least with the chosen name. This >>> concern has come up on the "clojure dev" group as well. I have found a >>> different implementation of (any?) useful in my own projects: >>> >>> (defn any? >>> [pred coll] >>> (not (not-any? pred coll))) >>> >>> I found it odd that (not-any? pred coll) existed without (any? pred >>> coll). >>> >> >> The clojure.core/some function does effectively the same thing as your >> any? function. >> >> - James >> > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
