On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM, rob levy <r.p.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> partition-by does exactly what you need.

Not quite.

user=> (take 10 (partition-by #(= 0 (rem % 3)) (iterate inc 1)))
((1 2)
 (3)
 (4 5)
 (6)
 (7 8)
 (9)
 (10 11)
 (12)
 (13 14)
 (15))

At first it seems you can fix this as follows:

user=> (defn questionable-split-when [pred coll]
         (let [p (partition-by pred coll)]
           (cons (first p) (map #(apply concat %) (partition 2 2 []
(rest p))))))
#'user/questionable-split-when
user=> (take 10 (questionable-split-when #(= 0 (rem % 3)) (iterate inc 1)))
((1 2)
 (3 4 5)
 (6 7 8)
 (9 10 11)
 (12 13 14)
 (15 16 17)
 (18 19 20)
 (21 22 23)
 (24 25 26)
 (27 28 29))

So far, so good. But:

user=> (questionable-split-when #(= 0 (rem % 3)) [1 2 3 6 7 8 9])
((1 2)
 (3 6 7 8)
 (9))

Whereas:

user=> (split-when #(= 0 (rem % 3)) [1 2 3 6 7 8 9])
((1 2)
 (3)
 (6 7 8)
 (9))

The latter correctly starts a new partition each time the pred is
true; the former fails if the pred is ever true twice in a row.

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