I am sorry, You are correct. I see what you mean. I mis-interpreted meta()
as returning an empty meta-map.
On Sunday, July 29, 2012 10:26:46 AM UTC+2, Per Mildner wrote:
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> Thanks, but the question was not about the empty() methods.
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> On Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:14:09 AM UTC+2,
Thanks, but the question was not about the empty() methods.
On Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:14:09 AM UTC+2, tbc++ wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Per Mildner wrote:
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>> Looking at the persistent types in clojure.lang.* (PersistentVector.java
>> et al.) I
Looking at the persistent types in clojure.lang.* (PersistentVector.java
et al.) I see several occurrences of the idiom EMPTY.withMeta(meta()) where
EMPTY is a constant (static final) denoting an empty collection of the
appropriate type.
What I can not understand, given that these types are al
