Duh. Thanks, and I will be adding that to the sequences chapter. :-/

Stuart

>
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Stuart Halloway
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> (1) Is there a simpler way to define pairwise, which takes an  
>> existing
>> sequence and then returns its items a pair at a time?
>>
>> (defn pairwise [& seq]
>> (map vector (take-nth 2 seq) (take-nth 2 (rest seq))))
>
> The built-in (partition) function does this, no?
>
> (partition 2 my-seq)
>
> Best,
> Graham
>
>
>>
>> (2) When writing a function like pairwise, are there any bright-line
>> rules about whether to use variable arity?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>
> >


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