On Oct 28, 6:04 pm, John Harrop <jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It always starts with the zeroth item and skips ahead however many elements
> were specified. The second argument is the n in
> "every nth item". (You can think of it as the index of the SECOND item to
> take, so (take-nth 3 foo) takes index 0 of foo, then index 3, and so on.)
Yes I agree it makes perfect sense, but I don't think the doc string
really says that. It is probably just be my obtuseness but attached is
a very minor patch which might be more clear. As to what should happen
with an argument of 0 or less - I have no idea!
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From 4fb354475629f16065fa68bfa43f0dd5475ee891 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tpratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:53:30 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed broken test
---
test/clojure/test_clojure/compilation.clj | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/test/clojure/test_clojure/compilation.clj b/test/clojure/test_clojure/compilation.clj
index fba781c..1d3a78a 100644
--- a/test/clojure/test_clojure/compilation.clj
+++ b/test/clojure/test_clojure/compilation.clj
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@
(deftest test-embedded-constants
(testing "Embedded constants"
- (are [t] (eval `(= t ~t/TYPE)))
- Boolean Byte Character Double Float Integer Long Short))
+ (is (eval `(= Boolean/TYPE ~Boolean/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Byte/TYPE ~Byte/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Character/TYPE ~Character/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Double/TYPE ~Double/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Float/TYPE ~Float/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Integer/TYPE ~Integer/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Long/TYPE ~Long/TYPE)))
+ (is (eval `(= Short/TYPE ~Short/TYPE)))))
--
1.6.0.4
From 1da1aef4a80e63e799fd1a569d8185c20e2d0341 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tpratley <timothyprat...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:13:08 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Trivial docstring update to take-nth
---
src/clj/clojure/core.clj | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/clj/clojure/core.clj b/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
index 90e3f76..91f7923 100644
--- a/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
+++ b/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
@@ -2727,7 +2727,7 @@
(.removeAlias (the-ns ns) sym))
(defn take-nth
- "Returns a lazy seq of every nth item in coll."
+ "Returns a lazy seq of every nth item in coll, starting at the 0th."
[n coll]
(lazy-seq
(when-let [s (seq coll)]
--
1.6.0.4
