Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Wood
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:24 AM, e evier...@gmail.com wrote: ok, I'll check that stuff out. Thanks. It occurs to me this is being compared to something in ruby called partition. I like that name. partition-by ... but maybe it was opted to use the simpler name, which I can appreciate.

time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread e
The IRC channel folks helped me implement what we discovered was already called separate in contribs. My point was to do a partition that generated the two lists (passes pred) and (fails pred) in one pass without recursion. We ended up with: (defn filt-rem [pred coll] (loop [l1 () l2 () [f

Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread Emeka
Hi e, I'm still learning the basics, very much like you( I guess you are ahead of me in Clojure). However, I have a question for you and not an answer to your questions. Why do you have doall here (def l1 (doall (take 5 (repeatedly #(rand-int 3000) . From my little knowledge of Clojure,

Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread e
people are paying a lot of attention to pure functional languages, which I think mean ones that don't ever destroy data structures out from under people pointing at them. Instead, people who need different views just get their own different views -- possibly reusing common components. This other

Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread e
oh, so anyway, i put it in that specific place because I wasn't sure if, without it, l1 would just be some sort of smart, lazy list that only exists when you start trying to get the values. I didn't think so, but, again, I'm just trying to shotgun the problem. On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:57 PM, e

Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread Stephen C. Gilardi
On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:24 PM, e wrote: Do folks in the contrib group like this new implementation? To make contributions to clojure-contrib, you'll need to have a Contributor Agreement on file with Rich. Please see http://clojure.org/contributing . I think your implementation is an

Re: time lies, even with doall

2009-01-25 Thread e
ok, I'll check that stuff out. Thanks. It occurs to me this is being compared to something in ruby called partition. I like that name. partition-by ... but maybe it was opted to use the simpler name, which I can appreciate. On that subject, I know filter is standard from other languages like