Can you give an example use case?

Personally, I would be a little surprised to find out that identity worked
like this. After all, why return the first argument, why not the last? Or a
vector of all the arguments?

Cheers,

Chris

On 27 February 2013 15:02, Jim foo.bar <jimpil1...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I often find myself asking for identity of something but identity takes a
> single argument! Why not have it take as many as one likes but only return
> the identity of the first? I find that very handy...do people agree?
>
> (defn identity
> "Returns its argument or its first argument when there are more."
> {:added "1.0"
> :static true}
> ([x] x)
> ([x & more] x))
>
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