On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:01 PM, MiltondSilva <shadowtr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I believe it's for performance reasons. Strings in java are immutable, > so they use the StringBuilder(mutable) to achieve better performance.
But str use StringBuilder too. Maybe it was better to avoid the extra call overhead? -John > On Jan 5, 12:18 am, John Szakmeister <j...@szakmeister.net> wrote: >> I was looking at a commit that updated a docstring for str/join, which >> enticed me to take a look at the implementation. I was kind of >> surprised to see that it wasn't: >> (apply str (interpose sep coll)) >> >> I'm just curious about the developer was thinking. Here's a link to the >> code: >> <https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/f30995c86056959abca53d0ca35dc...> >> >> Thanks! >> >> -John > > -- > 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 -- 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