I originally thought of calling nth on the seq but isn't that pretty
wildly inefficient?

On Oct 14, 1:38 pm, Moritz Ulrich <ulrich.mor...@googlemail.com>
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> Are you sure you need to capture the state in next-sine? It's not very
> clojure-ly to have functions with state. I would capture the state in
> the caller as an integer and just use get or nth on the lazy seq.
> If you want to stick to your impure function, please mark it with a !
> at the end: next-sine!
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> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:52 PM, clwham...@gmail.com
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> <clwham...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need a function that produces the 'next' value from a lazy-seq --
> > something like a Python generator. I imagine it would have to be some
> > sort of closure like:
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> > (def next-sine
> >    (let [sines (atom (cycle (map sin (range 0 6.28 0.01))))]
> >        #(swap! sines rest)))
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> > Is there a more idomatic way of doing this? I don't see a lot of use
> > of closures in clojure...
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