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According to the documentation nthrest should be equivalent to calling rest repeatedly, but its behaviour differs when coll is nil.
nthrest
rest
nil
I also noticed neither of the nthrest and nthnext functions are included in the test-nil-punning.
nthnext
Logged as https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-2717