Right, what I was more pointing out is the fact that the printed version of a sequence in the REPL is syntactically identical to that of a list. Which, clearly for most intents and purposes is a great representation in output for using the REPL while doing development. However, for a newcomer particularly, I feel like it may be valuable for a seq to annotate it's printed version with syntax that it is not a literal list but is a sequence that, when expanded, results in the set of values indicated by the list (or, the subset of values indicated by the list of length *print-length*)
Again, its a nitpick, but basically was a point of confusion for me and I thought it might be a useful thing to realize since I'd guess it's something that wears off in the first few days of using the language. But, it might be a sticking point for some new users who are learning the difference between lists (a la LISP) and lazy sequences a la Clojure. On Jan 9, 8:41 pm, "Mark Engelberg" <mark.engelb...@gmail.com> wrote: > A sequence evaluates its elements on demand. The REPL needs to > evaulate the elements in order to print them. You can control how > many elements are printed by changing *print-length*. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
