The answer is that you should treat them as you would persistent structures. It's true that they don't always change, but they may eventually change and without notice. For vectors this will be somewhere in the range of once every 32 conj! calls, but could change in a future version of clojure, so don't count on it.
As the docs say: "Don’t bash in place" http://clojure.org/reference/transients On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:38 PM, JvJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > While doing operations on transient collections, I've noticed that the > result of assoc! or conj! is always identical to the original structure > (i.e. it satisfies "identical?", and is not merely equivalent). > > Is this always the case, or can the return value of assoc! or conj! > sometimes be a different object? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
