Bart Lateur wrote:
>...
> In the same gist, a "last" inside the code block would, if you don't
> know exectution order, result in a completely unpredictable result.
>...
> p.s. Who cares that grep() processes every item for a boolean test? If
> you have a 1000 items, on average, you need 500 tests anyway if you're
> sure it is in there, and 1000 if it's not. Breaking out of grep early
> would at worst do nothing, and at best, on average, double the speed.
Yes. But this argument goes out the window when the list being iterated
over is lazily evaluated.
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John Porter
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