On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Stuart Halloway wrote: > Right. So, should sort work? > > user=> (sort "bca") > java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError: Class java.lang.String does
> not implement the requested interface java.util.Collection It does work and returns a sorted seq of characters. I don't know why you got the result you did. I think I've seen IncompatibleClassChangeErrors clear with a re-launch of Clojure, but I don't know what causes them: user=> (sort "bca") (\a \b \c) On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:26 PM, Stephen C. Gilardi wrote: > I think changing [sort and sort-by] to be consistent with the rest > of the sequence functions in [automatically calling seq on their > arguments] would be a good idea. Looking further into this, I see that doing this would be incorrect. Preserving the type of the argument through to an internal call to "to- array" allows for an efficient, type-specific operation to put the contents of coll into the Java array that's used for sorting. --Steve --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
