Re: clojure.zip and root

2009-07-20 Thread B Smith-Mannschott
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 12:33, kyle smith wrote: > >> At the moment "root" works like an "unzip". What you want it is some >> kind of "up-till-root" shortcut. > Yep. For now, I've added root-loc to my local copy of clojure, > although I second the name unzip. Hmm, though this is actually precisel

Re: clojure.zip and root

2009-07-20 Thread kyle smith
> At the moment "root" works like an "unzip". What you want it is some > kind of "up-till-root" shortcut. Yep. For now, I've added root-loc to my local copy of clojure, although I second the name unzip. > > It would also be nice if the docs mentioned that a loc is a vector of > > [node path]. > >

Re: clojure.zip and root

2009-07-20 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, On Jul 20, 10:35 am, kyle smith wrote: > I'm trying to learn how to use zippers, and I have some thoughts:  Why > does (root loc) return a node, rather than just the location of the > root?  If the latter were true and you wanted the node, you could just > call (node (root loc)).  As it is,