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When using regular expression operators (s/alt s/cat etc ) to describe sequences, s/with-gen doesn't work as I would have expected. It completely ignores the generator passed to the definition. Eg:

(require '[clojure.alpha.spec :as s])
(require '[clojure.alpha.spec.gen :as gen])
(s/def ::some-spec 
 (s/with-gen string? (constantly (gen/return "olar"))))

(gen/sample (s/gen ::some-spec))
 ;;=> ("olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar" "olar")

The above generator works as I would expected, now if we try to create a similar one for s/alt we get unexpected results:

(s/def ::some-other-spec 
 (s/with-gen
  (s/alt :greetings #{:olar :oizito :oi :hello :hey :yo :hallo}
             :farewell #{:bye :bye-bye :hasta-la-vista :tchussy :tchau-kakao})
  (constantly (gen/return [:tchau-kakao]))))

(gen/sample (s/gen ::some-other-spec))
;;=> => ([:olar] [:hasta-la-vista] [:hallo] [:hallo] [:tchussy] [:oi] [:bye-bye] [:tchussy] [:tchau-kakao] [:yo])

Is this a bug or is it expected somehow?

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Seems like a bug, I logged at https://clojure.atlassian.net/browse/CLJ-2723

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