On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 5:05:00 PM UTC-4, Michael Gardner wrote: > > On May 12, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Fluid Dynamics <a209...@trbvm.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > Strings and arrays support constant-time access by index. > > Yes, but why should that mean that contains? should work on Strings? > "Because it can" doesn't seem compelling to me. In discussions about > contains?, one often hears that it works on associative containers, which > is supported by the use of the word "key" in its docstring. Vectors are > indeed associative, but Strings aren't (at least according to > associative?), which is why this seems like a strange feature to me.
Yes; and presumably you can't produce a string with one character changed using "assoc" either. But it should work consistently. Either it shouldn't work for strings, or it should work fully, including producing nil for not-found with nonnumeric keys. Ditto arrays. -- 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/d/optout.
