Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-10 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 10 Sep., 10:33, Laurent PETIT wrote: > Maybe when Counted becomes a protocol and is then extended to > java.lang.String ? > > (Does this make sense ?) Hmmm... Then you can't implement count for seqs anymore. Given you want the Counted protocol to provide a O(1) count function (really na

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-10 Thread Laurent PETIT
2010/9/10 Meikel Brandmeyer : > Hi, > > On 9 Sep., 21:01, Randy Hudson wrote: > >> Inexplicably (counted? "abcd") returns false. > > Why should it? String does not implement Counted. Maybe when Counted becomes a protocol and is then extended to java.lang.String ? (Does this make sense ?) -- Yo

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-10 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 9 Sep., 21:01, Randy Hudson wrote: > Inexplicably (counted? "abcd") returns false. Why should it? String does not implement Counted. Sincerely Meikel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to cloj

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-09 Thread Randy Hudson
Inexplicably (counted? "abcd") returns false. On Sep 9, 11:33 am, Sunil S Nandihalli wrote: > actually there is a function called > > counted? > > Sunil. > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Oury wrote: > > Thank you very much. > > > Never looked closely at count definition. > > > I assum

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-09 Thread Sunil S Nandihalli
actually there is a function called counted? Sunil. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Nicolas Oury wrote: > Thank you very much. > > Never looked closely at count definition. > > I assumed it was a forawrd to .count of Counted, which explains my problem. > > I kind of remembered the O(1) of Coun

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-09 Thread Nicolas Oury
Thank you very much. Never looked closely at count definition. I assumed it was a forawrd to .count of Counted, which explains my problem. I kind of remembered the O(1) of Counted and get mixed up. Best regards, Nicolas. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Meikel Brandmeyer wrote: > Hi, > > On 9

Re: Knowing in advance the complexity of count

2010-09-09 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On 9 Sep., 16:45, Nicolas Oury wrote: > is it a way to do so? You can check the Counted marker interface for clojure collections. But this won't cover Strings etc. More information here: http://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java#L489 Sincerely Meikel -- Y