Details
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Type:
Defect
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Status:
Closed
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Priority:
Minor
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Resolution: Declined
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Affects Version/s: Release 1.2
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Fix Version/s: None
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Component/s: None
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Labels:None
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Environment:Mac OS X Java 6
Description
Very minor, but noticed while browsing that "some" is defined as:
(defn some
...
[pred coll]
(when (seq coll)
(or (pred (first coll)) (recur pred (next coll)))))
The "(seq coll)" call will potentially generate an unused seq each time.
Activity
The `seq` function is the idiomatic way to ask the question "does this collection have something in it?" and is the correct approach in the case of `some`. If we were to use `seq?` then we would be asking an entirely different question: "does this collection implement the ISeq interface". In the case of using `seq?`, `some` would no longer work against the seq abstraction. It's tempting to look at the name `seq` and `seq?` and assume that they mean similar things. The type-based predicates are tricky. 
Thanks for the informative comment Michael. I was just watching Rich's talk on seq's, and remembered making this noob bug report: sorry!