On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 12:22:10PM -0400, John Porter wrote: > I guess my question is, why do these need to be builtins? They don't. But that does not mean they should not be considered. > There is no limit to the funky algorithms one can come up with; > not everyting should go in the core. True, but if there is a very common idiom like these that people are constantly requesting, why should they not be considered if there is a considerable performace benefit. Hopefully with true iterators it may be possible to do a lot of them as extensions instead of as operators. But then we need to consider if to include them in the stdlib. Graham.
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