Strings are character sequences, count is a better option to stay within the sequence abstraction.
Lic P. > count does some type checks, but it's negligible in most cases as I already > said. len can give a clear intention than count somtimes. > > I'm not suggesting that it should be included in clojure.string, but if > count is currently not preferred over .length, including it can be a good > option. > > > On Wednesday, October 30, 2013 7:50:04 PM UTC+9, Baishampayan Ghose wrote: > > > > What'd clojure.string/len do any differently than clojure.core/count? > > count already provides does the fastest possible thing for strings. > > ~BG > > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Alice <doff...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > > wrote: > > > Which one is preferred? > > > > > > .length needs to be type hinted, so more verbose. > > > The performance penalty of count is negligible in most cases. > > > > > > I think including len in clojure.string would be a good idea because > > it's > > > used so often. > > > > > > -- > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > Groups "Clojure" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> > > > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > > your > > > first post. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > > > --- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups > > > "Clojure" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an > > > email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > > > -- > > Baishampayan Ghose > > b.ghose at gmail.com > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Luc Prefontaine<lprefonta...@softaddicts.ca> sent by ibisMail! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
