On Jun 28, 2009, at 11:48 AM, Handkea fumosa wrote:
On Jun 28, 11:27 am, Rich Hickey wrote:
Deducing it doesn't contain 5 because it was passed a key
incomparable
to some other key seems like a stretch to me, and bug-hiding.
Clojure is relatively free of exception catching in normal flow
On Jun 28, 11:27 am, Rich Hickey wrote:
> Deducing it doesn't contain 5 because it was passed a key incomparable
> to some other key seems like a stretch to me, and bug-hiding.
>
> Clojure is relatively free of exception catching in normal flow of
> control, and I'm disinclined to start here.
I
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Handkea fumosa wrote:
>
> On Jun 27, 11:32 am, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote:
>> Am 26.06.2009 um 23:44 schrieb Michael Spiegel:
>> > =>(def foo (sorted-set "bob" "alice" "michael"))
>> > => (contains? foo 5)
>> > java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be
Hi,
I can understand both points of vue, since the documentation is not
explicit about the possibility to return an error ?
"(contains? coll key)
Returns true if key is present in the given collection, otherwise
returns false. Note that for numerically indexed collections like
vectors and Java ar
Hi,
Am 27.06.2009 um 22:30 schrieb Handkea fumosa:
I'd agree that a ClassCastException is not inappropriate if you try to
put heterogeneous objects into a sorted-set.
But contains? should probably just return true or false, never throw.
Michael's set doesn't contain 5; asking whether it does d
On Jun 27, 11:32 am, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote:
> Am 26.06.2009 um 23:44 schrieb Michael Spiegel:
> > =>(def foo (sorted-set "bob" "alice" "michael"))
> > => (contains? foo 5)
> > java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to
> > java.lang.Number (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
>
> IIRC, th
Hi,
Am 26.06.2009 um 23:44 schrieb Michael Spiegel:
Running the following test code generates an exception:
=>(def foo (sorted-set "bob" "alice" "michael"))
=> (contains? foo 5)
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to
java.lang.Number (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
I've tracke
