That was it, thanks!

On Feb 8, 5:01 pm, Alex Osborne <a...@meshy.org> wrote:
> John Svazic <jsva...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Snipping to the relevant portion of the exception (always look at the
> last "Caused by"):
>
> > Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: clojure.lang.Cons cannot be
> > cast to clojure.lang.Associative
> >         at clojure.lang.RT.assoc(RT.java:664)
> >         at net.auxesia.chromosome$mutate.invoke(chromosome.clj:58)
>
> So what that means is that a call to the "assoc" function on line 58 of
> chromosome.clj is being passed a "Cons" object (a list cell) instead of
> an "Associative" object (a vector or map).
>
> The assoc call in question is this:
>
>   (let [old (:gene c)
>         idx (rand-int (count old))
>         new (assoc old idx (char (mod (+ (int (nth old idx))
>                                          (+ 32 (rand-int 90))) 122)))]
>
> So "old" must be a list when you're expecting a vector.  Looking around
> at places you assign (:gene c) we come to the "mate" function,
> specifically:
>
> (let [...
>       child1 (into (drop pivot gene2) (reverse (take pivot gene1)))
>       child2 (into (drop pivot gene1) (reverse (take pivot gene2)))]
>   ...
>   (hash-map :gene child1 :fitness (fitness child1))
>   ...)
>
> 'drop is lazy so returns a seq, calling 'into on a seq produces a list.
> So try calling vec on each child to convert it into a vector.

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