Clojure Goodness: Using The range Function

In Clojure we can use the range function to create a lazy sequence of numbers. We can optionally specify a start value, end value and define the steps between the numbers. If we use the end value argument that value is exclusive for the returned values in the lazy sequence.

In the following example we invoke the range function with different arguments:

(ns mrhaki.core.range
  (:require [clojure.test :refer [is]]))

;; range function without arguments returns
;; an infinite lazy sequence of numbers.
(is (= '(0 1 2 3 4) (take 5 (range))))

;; We can specifyt the start value for 
;; a lazy infinite  sequence of numbers.
(is (= '(0 1 2 3 4) (range 5)))

;; With the second argument we set the
;; end value for our lazy sequence of numbers.
;; The end value is exclusive for the range.
(is (= '(5 6 7 8 9) (range 5 10)))

;; The third argument defines the step value
;; between numbers, which by default is 1.
(is (= '(0 2 4 6 8) (range 0 10 2)))

;; We can also have a lazy sequence counting 
;; numbers back.
(is (= '(5 4 3 2 1) (range 5 0 -1)))

(is (= '(100 97 94 91 88) (take 5 (range 100 0 -3))))

Written with Clojure 1.10.1.