By the way, I cloned the Clojure repo and have adjusted the docs for
this function, but I can't figure out how to get Github to submit it
for approval, or for a pull request or whatever it is. If someone
wants to take this patch and check it in for me, that would be fine
too.
diff --git a/src/clj/clojure/core.clj b/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
index eaab3aa..ef05ccb 100644
--- a/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
+++ b/src/clj/clojure/core.clj
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@

 (defn drop-while
   "Returns a lazy sequence of the items in coll starting from the
first
-  item for which (pred item) returns nil."
+  item for which (pred item) returns logical false."
   {:added "1.0"
    :static true}
   [pred coll]

On Sep 9, 11:46 pm, Jacek Laskowski <ja...@laskowski.net.pl> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Alan <a...@malloys.org> wrote:
> > I'm not 100% sure what you're asking, but I think I understand you,
> > and in that case you can refer to
> >http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/9c7f72670...,
> > in which I ask this very question and get the answers I am looking
> > for.
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> That was my point exactly - the reference to nil in the docstring for
> drop-while. It's a bit confusing to me and I'd expect a boolean
> reference instead.
>
> Jacek
>
> --
> Jacek Laskowski
> Notatnik Projektanta Java EE -http://jaceklaskowski.pl

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