I don't know how efficient it is (or how idiomatic it really is), but
this should work:

(defn find-files
 "Find files in directory that match predicates pred & others"
 [in-dir pred & others]
 (reduce (fn [xs f] (filter f xs)) (file-seq in-dir) (cons pred others)))

Dan

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:47 PM, nwalex <neillalexan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very new to Clojure, and to functional programming in general. Can
> anyone tell me the idiomatic way to implement this function?
>
> (defn find-files
>  "Find files in directory that match predicates pred & others"
>  [in-dir pred & others]
>  (filter pred (file-seq in-dir)))
>
> What is the best way to filter a sequence using multiple predicates? I
> want to return a sequence containing the files that match predicate
> pred and all other predicates bound to 'others'.
>
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