@krchia: Which version of Clojure are you seeing that on? (I think I'm reading this correctly that you're seeing different results from running the same expression multiple times, right?)

I tried it on Clojure 1.9 and always got the second result...

what’s a good way to multiply elements of 2 list?

[1 2] [3 4] -> [3 8]

got it - (apply (fn [x y] (map * x y)) test1)

(map * [1 2] [3 4]) is more succinct, though that may or may not be desirable

Nevermind, sorry, you already got there, I misread

(apply map * [[1 2] [3 4]])

@krchia: Did you see my question to you above, posted last night?

nope

https://clojurians.slack.com/archives/beginners/p1468385177001091

oh actually both snippets are slightly different

i found out the reason why it was not behaving the way i wanted

In your posted snippet, they were identical — copy’n’paste error perhaps? At least that explains why I didn’t repro your results 🙂