Apparently this is indeed an older holdover and the . calls are slowly
being replaced with / as people make edits according to chouser.
Would people be interested in a patch that replaces all of the older
static calls using . to the newer method using / ?
--Robert McIntyre
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Robert McIntyre <bort...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious as to why first (and other functions) are defined in
> core as:
>
> (def
> ^{:arglists
> '([coll])
> :doc "Returns the first item in the collection. Calls seq on
> its
> argument. If coll is nil, returns
> nil."
> :added
> "1.0"}
> first (fn first [coll] (. clojure.lang.RT (first coll))))
>
> instead of:
>
> (def
> ^{:arglists '([coll])
> :doc "Returns the first item in the collection. Calls seq on its
> argument. If coll is nil, returns nil."
> :added "1.0"}
> first (fn first [coll] (clojure.lang.RT/first coll)))
>
> When the general consensus seems to be that the latter is more
> idiomatic/readable, especially for beginners?
>
> --Robert McIntyre
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