Sequential Access

Updated August 14, 2018

A super common way to access items in Clojure collections is through the seq abstraction. The seq abstraction gives us the items in a collection one at a time. But what order do those come in? The order is determined by the collection itself. We look at the different options for order. which largely determine the choice of collection type we use.

Code is available: lispcast/clojure-collections

You can checkout the code in your local repo with this command:

$CMD git clone https://github.com/lispcast/clojure-collections.git
$CMD cd clojure-collections

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Remembering Duplicates

16 min

Another common access pattern that largely determines the choice of collection is whether you want to remember duplicates. What happens when duplicates occur? Do you remember them? Do you replace the old one? Do you keep the old one?