Re: meaning of coll

2009-02-01 Thread e
i was confused by the meaning of coll, too . . .even at a more basic level of not knowing that it meant collection. I even thought at first I was seeing "col1" or that the second lower('L') was a capitol(i). I read it as, "column one" in my head. Is it accurate to call it "some-seq" or something?

Re: meaning of coll

2009-01-31 Thread Jason Wolfe
> I think it means any class that implements java.util.Collection. To be precise, I think "nil" is also always OK. Sometimes other seq-able things like Java arrays can be passed too, although I don't think this is ever promised to work (if it doesn't, you can always explicitly call seq on them

Re: meaning of coll

2009-01-31 Thread James Reeves
On Feb 1, 2:42 am, Mark Volkmann wrote: > When a function parameter is named "coll", does that generally mean it > can be any kind of collection except a map? > For example, the some function takes a predicate function and a > "coll", but it can't be a map. I thought all functions with coll took

Re: meaning of coll

2009-01-31 Thread Jason Wolfe
On Jan 31, 6:42 pm, Mark Volkmann wrote: > When a function parameter is named "coll", does that generally mean it > can be any kind of collection except a map? > For example, the some function takes a predicate function and a > "coll", but it can't be a map. I think it means any class that imple