On 25 April 2012 12:15, Tobias C Rittweiler <t...@freebits.de> wrote:
> The cl-utilities library contains one function which cannot be > found in alexandria that necessity pops up every now and then: > > Returning the maximum (or minimum) element in a sequence > with respect to an arbitrary calculation involving the elements. > > I.e. > > (elt (sort (copy-sequence <SEQUENCE>) #'< :key <FUNCTION>) 0) ; or #'> > > except doing it more efficiently. > > CL-UTILITIES calls this function EXTREMUM. (It also provides a couple > of more functions along the lines to cover some edge cases.) Pushed a version. Can you verify that it is what you wanted, and performs acceptably? Cheers, -- Nikodemus _______________________________________________ alexandria-devel mailing list alexandria-devel@common-lisp.net http://lists.common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/alexandria-devel
