Thanks, SS!!!
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...Just trying to understand the rationale between Clojure's design here.
As I gradually get deeper into Clojure, I've been highly impressed by how
well thought-out everything is, so I'm sure there is a very good reason for
this one too. The question is:
Why are Clojure's built-in collections
Mostly efficiency. A Seq generally gives you access to `first` and `rest`
in constant time. Vectors, to take one example, cannot give you `rest`
efficiently, but a Seq backed by the vector can.
Clojure lists are implemented as singly-linked lists, which do have
first/rest pointers, so they
