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icholy
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I think it only iterates over the collection once.
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rymohr
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That and they're collection agnostic. I highly recommend watching Rich Hickey's talk for more background:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII
msoad
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Then what happens to operations that access the collection? like third argument in JavaScript's native forEach?
acjohnson55
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That's what a zipper [1] is good for. It gives you access to the rest of a collection relative to the current position.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipper_%28data_structure%29
aeflash
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It's not supported. But if you're doing things right, you shouldn't need it.
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