On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli <sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everybody, > I have a very large, but with finite size, collection. I would like to get > like first 10 elements in the sorted list . I would use a heap if I were in > c++ .. is there a inbuilt implementation of this in clojure? .. Is there > some other way to achieve this? some sort of lazy sort would be perfect. I > know I need the full collection to start with .. but that is fine.
A seq on a sorted set should be pretty efficient. (take 3 (sorted-set 8 2 1 4 6 9 7 3)) ;=> (1 2 3) --Chouser -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en