2013/5/13 Meikel Brandmeyer (kotarak) <m...@kotka.de>

> seq belongs to seq-land. empty? belongs to data structure land. It should
> actually be implemented as #(zero? (count %)). But unfortunately it is not.
>

I'd argue it shouldn't

(empty? (cycle [1 2 3])) => false
(zero? (count (cycle [1 2 3]))) ... infinite loop

This is also a problem for finite seqs, where count is a O(n) operation.
With that in mind, the single seq object allocated by empty? doesn't seem
so bad.

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