My bad - fixed in 1.6!

On Friday, February 15, 2013 9:15:31 PM UTC, Denis Washington wrote:
>
> Hi, 
>
> I just solved the "Replicate a Sequence" problem on 4clojure [1] using 
> "interleave". However, I noticed that "interleave" cannot be called with 
> a single argument. My first attempt at solving the problem was like 
> this: 
>
>   (defn replicate-n-times [xs n] 
>     (apply interleave (replicate n xs))) 
>
> This works fine for n > 1: 
>
>   clojure=> (replicate-n-times [1 2 3] 3) 
>   (1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3) 
>
> However, for n = 1 the function fails with an exception: 
>
>   clojure=> (replicate-n-times [1 2 3] 1) 
>   ArityException Wrong number of args (1) passed to: core$interleave 
>   clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437) 
>
> I had to add a special case to make this work: 
>
>   (fn replicate-n-times [xs n] 
>     (if (= n 1) xs (apply interleave (replicate n xs)))) 
>
> I think it would be nice if "interleave" called with a single argument 
> would just return the argument itself, just like single-argument "+" and 
> "*" do. 
>
> Regards, 
> Denis Washington 
>
> [1] http://www.4clojure.com/problem/33 
>
>

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