Doesn't (some pred coll) do the same thing as (first (filter pred
coll))?

On Mar 9, 11:34 am, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do use this pattern, but if I were naming it I think I'd call it
> "find-first".  But that's scarcely shorter than "(first (filter ...)",
> which is why I've never actually defined it.
> -Stuart Sierra
>
> On Mar 8, 3:20 pm, André Thieme <splendidl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I regularily stumble upon the (first (filter predicate coll)) pattern.
> > Maybe we can add a filter1 for that?
> > In the Clojure project itself I found this two times, in core.clj for
> > the ns macro,
> > and in genclass.clj in find-field.
> > Also in the clojure-contrib project it shows up two times (again in
> > the core.clj
> > of Clojure for CLR, and in clojurescript.clj).

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