Ah, scratch that, list* returns a seq as well.

On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Gary Trakhman <[email protected]>wrote:

> I believe what he wants is a persistentlist.  You could get one from
> (apply list) or more succinctly/esoterically (list* ..)
>
> Sort returns a seq view over the array returned by java.util.Array.sort()
>
> (defn sort
>
>   "Returns a sorted sequence of the items in coll. If no comparator is
>   supplied, uses compare. comparator must
>   implement java.util.Comparator."
>   {:added "1.0"
>    :static true}
>   ([coll]
>    (sort compare coll))
>   ([^java.util.Comparator comp coll]
>    (if (seq coll)
>      (let [a (to-array coll)]
>        (. java.util.Arrays (sort a comp))
>        (seq a))
>      ())))
>
>
> (class (sort (range 10)))
> clojure.lang.ArraySeq
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Plínio Balduino <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave
>>
>> Sorry if I didn't get it, but doesn't sort already return a list?
>>
>> Could explain?
>>
>> Plínio
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Dave Tenny <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a sequence from a call to 'sort'.
>>> I want a list.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to do this?
>>>
>>> (apply list (sort ...))?
>>>
>>> Will it have problems on large sequence inputs?
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't use (into () (sort ...))
>>> since that conjoins and ruins the sort order.
>>>
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