On Nov 9, 2010, at 4:24 AM, Chris Perkins wrote: > The key word there is "sometimes" - you can't count on that behavior. If you > have been working with small collections, and "bashing in-place" is > working for you, you've just been lucky. Your luck will not last ;)
Thanks Chris for that info! Will keep this in mind for the future. :-) - Greg > On Nov 8, 4:45 pm, Greg <g...@kinostudios.com> wrote: >> >> I must say it would be really nice if this was considered kosher.. as it >> does work just fine. It would also be useful to know why transient bashing >> is frowned upon. >> > > It's not that it's "frowned upon" - it simply doesn't work. Functions > that operate on transients (conj!, assoc!, etc) return the modified > data-structure, just like their non-transient counterparts. It just so > happens that due to an implementation detail, they sometimes return > the same instance, modified in-place, that you passed to them. The key > word there is "sometimes" - you can't count on that behavior. If you > have been working with small collections, and "bashing in-place" is > working for you, you've just been lucky. Your luck will not last ;) > > - Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
