Chjips you are right. See  this : 

(defn palindrome [x]
  (if (string? x)
    (clojure.string/reverse x)
    (into (empty x) (reverse x))))
(palindrome '( 1 2 3 4)) (1 2 3 4)

So back to the drawing table.

Roelof


Op donderdag 8 oktober 2015 10:59:30 UTC+2 schreef Alan Forrester:

> On 8 Oct 2015, at 09:15, r/ Wobben <wobb...@gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > I have now this : 
> > 
> > (ns fourclojure.core 
> >   (:gen-class)) 
> > 
> > 
> > (defn checker [x] 
> >   ( = x (if (string? x) 
> >     (clojure.string/reverse x) 
> >     (into (empty x) (reverse x))))) 
> > 
> > 
> > (checker '(1 2 3 4 5))     true 
> > 
> > 
> > ( = '( 1 2 3 4 5) '( 5 4 3 2 1) ) false 
> > 
> > So something is wrong about my code 
> > 
> > it works fine with string but not with a set 
>
> First, ‘(1 2 3 4 5) is a list, not a set. 
>
> Second, (reverse ‘(1 2 3 4 5)) is  ‘(5 4 3 2 1) and according to the docs 
> for into 
>
> https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/into 
>
> that function conjoins items from (reverse ‘(1 2 3 4 5)) onto  (empty ‘(1 
> 2 3 4 5)). The docs for conj tell you what will happen 
>
> https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/conj 
>
> (empty ‘(1 2 3 4 5)) is a list and conjoining to a list puts items at the 
> front of the list not the back, so it puts 5 in at the from, then puts 4 in 
> front of the 5 and so on. So you are doing  ( = '( 1 2 3 4 5) ‘(1 2 3 4 
> 5)). 
>
> Alan

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