> In the olden lisp days, reduce was often preferred to
> apply because apply could hit limits on the number of
> arguments that could be passed to a function. Is that a
> potential issue with clojure?
No. Clojure's `apply` is lazy. Varargs are passed to the
function as a lazy sequence, and it's up to the function to
realize them or not.
For example, this is perfectly valid:
(defn foo [x y z & args]
;; args is never used
z)
(apply foo (range)) ; call with infinite sequence
;;=> 2
-S
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