On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:44:44 AM UTC-4, puzzler wrote: > > It is surprising at first, but since vectors are used so commonly in > Clojure instead of lists to represent literal sequential collections of > data, it turns out to be extremely convenient to be able to compare it for > equality against sequential collections generated as lists or lazy > sequences. Basically, all those things are just flat, linear collections, > and what we really care about from an equality standpoint is whether the > collections have the same elements in the same order. Clojure similarly > considers different types of maps (hash-maps, array-maps, sorted-maps) to > be equal if the associations are the same. Ditto for hash-sets and > sorted-sets. > > > Out of curiosity, if we want to check if two collections has the same structure/type and elements, namely if I want (my-equal [1 2 3 4 '(5)] [1 2 3 4 [5]]) => false (my-equal [1 2 3 4 [5]] [1 2 3 4 [5]]) => true
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