Several people had hands in that code, and the final result is all about perf. Do not treat string.clj as a reference for idiomatic code. :-)
Stu > 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 -- 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
