I wouldn't say it has *nothing* to do with dotimes. If dotimes were lazy rather than eager, then his form would do nothing despite the eagerness of into, because into is not being called:
(for [i (range 1000000)] (into [] (some-expensive-calc))) On Oct 14, 3:34 pm, Meikel Brandmeyer <m...@kotka.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 14.10.2010 um 23:07 schrieb Henk: > > > Does dotimes force evaluation?, > > At a different level. (dotimes [n 10000] (for ...)) does evaluate the for > form. But it returns a seq which is never realised. So you do effectively … > nothing. (dotimes [n 10000] (into [] (for ...))) as in your example does > consume the sequence and hence realises it. So all the work defined in the > for form is actually done. However this is do to into being eager and has > nothing to do with dotimes. > > Sincerely > Meikel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
