On May 30, 12:51 am, Eugen Dück <eu...@dueck.org> wrote:
> How often do you do:
> (+ 5)
> or
> (* 3)
>
> ? But you might have used something like
> (apply + coll)
> or
> (reduce + coll)
>
> and under certain circumstances your coll might have had only one
> element.
This is a good line of reasoning. Let's add an example in quantitative
logic, in which corner cases aren't that obvious at first glance:
user=> (every? pos? #{})
true
Clojure follows the mathematical definition here and concludes that
all members of the empty set are indeed positive :-) This is a useful
behaviour since the programmer probably wanted to keep out non-
positive numbers, and the empty set satisfies this restriction. No
need to check for an empty collection beforehand.
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