Hi Alan, 

With validation turned on, Schema eagerly validates your full inputs so 
this is the expected (if a bit unfortunate) behavior.  

There is a little context on the issue and some potential workarounds here 
: 

https://github.com/plumatic/schema/issues/340#issuecomment-185321295

Best, Jason

On Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 7:53:47 PM UTC-8, Alan Thompson wrote:
>
> I am a huge fan of Plumatic Schema, and it regularly helps me to find 
> mistakes in my code early in the development process.  However, I just 
> tracked down a very unexpected error when using a lazy infinite list such 
> as that produced by  `(range)`
>
> Suppose you define two simple functions like `clojure.core/first`.  One 
> doesn't use Schema and the other does:
>
>   (defn show-1
>     [arg]
>     (nth arg 0))
>
>   (s/defn show-2 :- s/Any
>     [arg :- [s/Any] ]
>     (nth arg 0))
>
>   (nl) (println "show-1")
>   (spyx (mapv show-1 [ [:a :b :c] (range) ]))
>
>   (nl) (println "show-2")
>   (spyx (mapv show-2 [ [:a :b :c] (range) ]))
>
>
> The results of running this code are:
>
> show-1
> (mapv show-1 [[:a :b :c] (range)]) => [:a 0]
>
> show-2
>
> ERROR in (dotest-line-472) (Iterate.java:54)
> Uncaught exception, not in assertion.
> expected: nil
>   actual: *java.lang.OutOfMemoryError*: Java heap space
>  at clojure.lang.Iterate.next (Iterate.java:54)
>     clojure.lang.RT.next (RT.java:706)
> ...
>
>
> Apparently, turning on Schema validations causes the input collection to 
> be realized for `show-2` function call.
>
> I am generally not a big fan of (infinite) lazy seq's and don't use them 
> much. However, this one came up during a simple unit test and really had me 
> scratching the old noggin for quite a while.....
>
> I'm not sure if there is an easy way of enhancing Schema to avoid this 
> problem, or if it is just something one needs to be wary of.
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>

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