On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 at 20:10, David Sletten wrote:

> I think Mark was referring to the call to 'keys'. But apparently  
> Clojure doesn't need to traverse the map to generate the keys?

The call to keys just creates a seq. There's no traversal until you consume it.

> Not sure what you mean here. It will produce a map from any 2 seqs.  
> And it does not generate it lazily--it uses loop. Don't try this at  
> home:
> (zipmap (map str (iterate inc 1)) (iterate inc 1))

Indeed that's a good one to avoid. :-) I simply meant that *in the keys/vals 
example above*, using zipmap is approximately as efficient (in time and space) 
as for or reduce, a result I found interesting.

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