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USING: help.markup help.syntax kernel math sequences ;
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IN: persistent-vectors
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HELP: PV{
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{ $syntax "elements... }" }
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{ $description "Parses a literal " { $link persistent-vector } "." } ;
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HELP: >persistent-vector
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{ $values { "seq" sequence } { "pvec" persistent-vector } }
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{ $description "Creates a " { $link persistent-vector } " with the same elements as " { $snippet "seq" } "." } ;
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HELP: persistent-vector
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{ $class-description "The class of persistent vectors." } ;
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ARTICLE: "persistent-vectors" "Persistent vectors"
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"A " { $emphasis "persistent vector" } " differs from an ordinary vector (" { $link "vectors" } ") in that it is immutable, and all operations yield new persistent vectors instead of modifying inputs. Unlike immutable operations on ordinary sequences, persistent vector operations are efficient and run in sub-linear time."
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$nl
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"The class of persistent vectors:"
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{ $subsection persistent-vector }
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"Persistent vectors support the immutable sequence protocol, namely as " { $link length } " and " { $link nth } ", and so can be used with most sequence words (" { $link "sequences" } ")."
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$nl
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"In addition to standard sequence operations, persistent vectors implement efficient operations specific to them. They run in sub-linear time on persistent vectors, and degrate to linear-time algorithms on ordinary sequences:"
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{ $subsection new-nth }
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{ $subsection ppush }
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{ $subsection ppop }
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"Converting a sequence into a persistent vector:"
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{ $subsection >persistent-vector }
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"Persistent vectors have a literal syntax:"
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{ $subsection POSTPONE: PV{ }
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"The empty persistent vector, written " { $snippet "PV{ }" } ", is used for building up all other persistent vectors."
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"This implementation of persistent vectors is based on the " { $snippet "clojure.lang.PersistentVector" } " class from Rich Hickey's Clojure language for the JVM (" { $url "http://clojure.org" } ")." ;
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ABOUT: "persistent-vectors"
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