HaloO, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Perhaps the supplier of the CPAN module for the nth function could also include, besides the actual function, an optimization pattern plug-in that locates the idiom in the parse tree and replaces the expression with a call to nth.
Wouldn't a dispatch target postcircumfix:<[ ]>:(LazySortedList,Int) suffice when the sort would return such a thing? Regards, TSa. -- "The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity" -- C.A.R. Hoare "Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." -- A.J. Perlis 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... = -1/12 -- Srinivasa Ramanujan