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Created January 7, 2012 02:37
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idomatic search using persistent set in Clojure
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element-search.clj
(re-find #"A|B|C" "B") ;; Two Problems
;=> "B"
(some #(= % "B") ["A" "B" "C"]) ;; A little better...but not the same
;=> true
(get #{ "A" "B" "C"} "B") ;; more readable?
;=> "B"
(#{"A" "B" "C"} "B") ;; Idiomatic per Joy of Clojure
;=> "B"
;; See here for code from the book:
;; https://github.com/mjrusso/joy-of-clojure-examples/blob/master/src/joc/ch5.clj#L223
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