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Wait! What? That's what 'transducers' means? Being new to Clojure I've been avoiding some concepts until later, but if they hadn't renamed old concepts, ie: h

• andrenth 8y ago
  I’m not a Clojure programmer but from the example given, “transducers” would be equivalent to lazy evaluation / stream fusion. Simple HOFs wouldn’t prevent the elements to be traversed in each subsequent function call.
• the2bears 8y ago
  That's not what transducers are, though. They're a "recipe" for a function composite. I'm simplifying things, but transducers compose to form a function that then executes against each element in the collection passed in. The main difference is that no intermediary data collections are created. There's more, and it's worth reading up on them.