the documentation on that could be improved. the doc string for that
is basically the same as for list. but they return different types.

rather surprising when you first see it.

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Alan <a...@malloys.org> wrote:

> list* consumes its last argument lazily, which means it can't count it
> (a requirement to be a real list). Both functions return objects that
> are seqs, though, so you can (seq?) them if you want.
>
> user=> (def x (list* (range)))
> #'user/x
> user=> (def x (apply list (range)))
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space (NO_SOURCE_FILE:4)
>
>
> On Jan 16, 10:21 am, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote:
> >     movies.core> (list? (apply list (map identity [1 2 3])))
> >     true
> >
> > Makes sense to me!
> >
> >     movies.core> (list? (list* (map identity [1 2 3])))
> >     false
> >
> > Huh?
> >
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