Thanks, the bootstraping and performance explanations both make sense.
I guess questions like that arise because Clojure tries to accomodate
both the Java type system and its own, and sometimes there is tension
between the two...

On Oct 11, 11:01 pm, Stuart Sierra <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Nope, the core interfaces were written before Protocols existed. Making them
> protocols is a bootstrapping problem, although ClojureScript shows that it
> may be possible to fix this.
>
> If you want to make a Java class seqable, you'll have to wrap it in another
> type that you create.
>
> -Stuart Sierra
> clojure.com

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