For reference, here's another vector implementation:
https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/clojure/gvec.clj


On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Cedric Greevey <cgree...@gmail.com> wrote:

> If Clojure's code assumes IPersistentVectors to be Collections, why
> doesn't IPersistentVector extend Collection? I'd consider that to be a bug.
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Vincent <vhenneb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess I can proxy APersistentVector, but the Clojure docs [1] advise to
>> use reify in favour to proxy whenever possible. My goal is to have my byte
>> stream behave like a standard Clojure vector. (Parts of that stream also
>> represent maps, and I'd like to do the same without loading them into
>> Clojure maps, as they may be quite big.) It looks unidiomatic to me to
>> resort to proxy to achieve that. Although maybe in the present case that's
>> fine?
>>
>> I'm just remembering that Collection is an interface and not a class, so
>> I guess that's not too bad since I can add it to my reify.
>>
>> [1] http://clojure.org/datatypes
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vincent
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 9 July 2013 20:40:43 UTC+2, Gary Trakhman wrote:
>>
>>> From the lack of extending java's Collection in IPersistentVector or
>>> associated interfaces, it seems like the intent is for every implementation
>>> to extend (proxy) APersistentVector.  Is that sufficient for what you're
>>> trying to do?  None of the methods in there are final.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Vincent <vhenn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Suppose I have a byte array representing an array of integers:
>>>> $ clojure-repl
>>>> Clojure 1.5.1
>>>> user=> (def v
>>>>   (let [a (byte-array (map byte [0 0 0 1 0 2 0 3]))]
>>>>     (reify clojure.lang.IPersistentVector
>>>>       clojure.lang.Seqable
>>>>       (seq [_] (for [i (range 0 (alength a) 2)]
>>>>                  (bit-or (bit-shift-left (aget a i) 8) (aget a (inc
>>>> i))))))))
>>>> #'user/v
>>>> user=> (println v)
>>>> [0 1 2 3]
>>>> nil
>>>> user=> (= [0 1 2 3] v)
>>>> ClassCastException user$fn$reify__2 cannot be cast to
>>>> java.util.Collection  clojure.lang.**APersistentVector.doEquiv
>>>> (APersistentVector.java:88)
>>>>
>>>> This is because doEquiv assumes that an instance of IPersistentVector
>>>> also is an instance of Collection. While that may be true for standard
>>>> Clojure data structures, this may not necessarily be the case for custom
>>>> implementations.
>>>>
>>>> Am I really the first one to attempt something like that? Am I not
>>>> supposed to write custom implementations of standard interfaces? Should
>>>> that bug be raised in JIRA?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Vincent
>>>>
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