Should you pass in nil, the 'when' will guard against a NPE.

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Martin Hauner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> there is an example in programming clojure (Chapter 2.6, Where is my
> for loop? on page 52)
> that I don't really get.
>
> (defn index-filter [pred coll]
>  (when pred
>    (for [[idx elt] (indexed coll) :when (pred elt)] idx)))
>
> The explanation in the book explains the for/:when but not the
> when. ;) What I do not understand is
> why there is the outer (when) .
>
> If I remove the (when):
>
> (defn index-filter-2 [pred coll]
>    (for [[idx elt] (indexed coll) :when (pred elt)] idx))
>
> it seems to do the same as the first version. So what's the reason for
> the (when) ?
>
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