On Dec 11, 2012, at 12:48 PM, larry google groups <lawrencecloj...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> 
> I am sorry for the dumb question, but zippers are for looping over nested 
> collections, yes? Why can't I just use get-in for that? When would I need a 
> zipper?

If you want to "edit" trees, using zippers is often much much easier than 
collection functions. I find the code easier to understand, too.

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