I'm trying to figure why this particular function isn't working as expected. I suspect from the error message that it has something to do with the way I'm creating the empty vector for the accumulator.
I have a simple function that returns a sequence of 2-element vectors:
(defn zip-with-index
"Returns a sequence in which each element is of the
form [i c] where i is the index of the element and c
is the element at that index."
[coll]
(map-indexed (fn [i c] [i c]) coll))
That works fine. The problem comes when I try to use it in another function
(defn indexes-satisfying
"Returns a vector containing all indexes of coll that satisfy
the predicate p."
[p coll]
(defn accum-if-satisfies [acc zipped]
(let [idx (first zipped)
elem (second zipped)]
(if (p elem)
(conj acc idx)
(acc))))
(reduce accum-if-satisfies (vector) (zip-with-index coll)))
It compiles, but when I attempt to use it I get an error:
user=> (indexes-satisfying (partial > 3) [1 3 5 7])
ArityException Wrong number of args (0) passed to: PersistentVector
clojure.lang.AFn.throwArity (AFn.java:437)
I can't figure out what's going wrong here. Also if there is a more 'Clojure-like' way of doing what I'm trying to do, I'm interested in hearing about that also.