Hm.. There seem to be cases when nil is not equivalent to {} when working
with maps:
(conj {} [:a :b]); => {:a :b}
(conj nil [:a :b]); => ([:a :b])
Although, code working with maps shouldn't use conj anyway.
Any other examples?
On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:08:07 PM UTC+2, dmirylenka wrote:
>
> I would say, they treat nil as an empty sequence, which makes nil,
> effectively, a unit:
>
> (assoc nil :a :b) ; => {:a :b}
> (merge nil {:a :b}) ; => {:a :b}
>
> etc.
>
> On Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:36:26 PM UTC+2, Moritz Ulrich wrote:
>>
>> This isn't true in Clojure: http://clojure.org/lisps
>>
>> However, most functions treat an empty seq as nil because they call `seq'
>> on their arguments.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Joop Kiefte <iko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> An empty sequence is equal to nil.
>>>
>>> 2012/8/29 Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant <abonnair...@gmail.com>:
>>> > 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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