I am wondering why not use a filter on the list?

Ken


On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 10:53:25 PM UTC-4, meino.cramer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a loooong list of something. And I have a recursive serach
> function to crawl down the list and search for a previously determined
> item.
> When found, the search processes stops and returns that item of the
> list.
> 
> In a second step, I want to process the list starting with that
> certain item til the end of the list.
> 
> Is it possible to jump right into a list at a certain item of
> the list and to start processing there? Could the search function
> return a certain extra information so that another function could
> pick up that item directly and start recursing from there?
> """Distributed recursion""" somehow...?
> 
> (I know, that vectors can do that and that there is 
> a function to convert a list to a vector and vice versa and
> the real programmer would call the processing function from
> the search function when the certain item is found --
> but all this would make this email/question superflous... 
> ;)))
> 
> Cheers
> Meino

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