My guess is that `merge` has an invariant "if all args are nil, return nil",
making calls to `seq` "contagious" from args to return value.

=> (merge (seq {}) (seq {}))
nil

Just a guess though.

Thanks,
Ambrose

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote:

> Why does `(merge)` return nil? I would have expected it to return the unit
> ({}) by analogy with things like this:
>
> (+) => 0
> (*) => 1
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