To all - THANKS (especially David Sletten) for the excellent
responses! Very helpful.
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Hi,
On Aug 10, 3:48 pm, David Sletten wrote:
> Notice how Clojure returns two different values here. Other Lisps (such as
> Common Lisp) define FIRST/REST of the empty list to both be NIL (i.e., the
> empty list itself). So it is common in other Lisps to test for the end of a
> list using the
On Aug 9, 2010, at 11:52 PM, chepprey wrote:
>
> (defn show [words]
> (let [word (first words)]
> (do
> (println word)
> (if (nil? word)
> (println "DONE")
> (recur (rest wo
Hi,
On Aug 10, 3:13 pm, Laurent PETIT wrote:
> next is more eager than rest, but in a loop scenario, I generally use next
> since we'll test for nil in order to know whether to continue to iterate or
> not.
I generally use next when I know that I need to realise anyway soon.
As Laurent said: th
Hi,
if you recur with "rest", you should use (empty?), if you recur with next,
you can use (nil?)
next is more eager than rest, but in a loop scenario, I generally use next
since we'll test for nil in order to know whether to continue to iterate or
not.
2010/8/10 chepprey
> Dipping my toes for
