Damian Conway wrote: > Moritz Lenz wrote: > >> There are some tests for List.uniq in the test suite, and pugs >> implements it, but it's not in S29. >> Damian seems to have though we should have it. >> So should we have it? > > I still think we should. If only because I've seen it re-(mis)-implemented so > many times. > > I'd also suggest that it have the same interface as .sort. Namely that you > can > pass a block to specify either a unary key-extractor or a binary comparator > function.
I like the idea with an unary function, but I have my doubts with the two arg comparison function, because it implies O(n²) runtime. But then again if the user needs that, he'd have to implement it in O(n²) anyway... Moritz -- Moritz Lenz http://moritz.faui2k3.org/ | http://perl-6.de/
