On Feb 18, 10:51 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> You are using it incorrectly. Separate returns a vector of things that  
> match, and a vector of things that don't match. Every time you call  
> the function it matches against a different random number. Take a look  
> at rand-elt in clojure.contrib.seq-utils.

Yes, the problem is solved by first binding the result of the random
number, before applying it inside #'separate, as follows, thanks

user> (let [rand-num (inc (int (rand 5)))]
            (separate (fn [n]
               (= n rand-num))
               '(1 2 3 4 5)))
[(4) (1 2 3 5)]

> Maybe the docstring for separate should say that fn should be side-
> effect-free...

I concur.

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