Thanks Zach! I like this idea but the proposed name, for some reason, doesn't sit right with me. Is there any prior art from other langs we could look at?
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 6:15 PM Zachary Daniel <zachary.s.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Counting a list, especially a large one, to know if there are "more than > x" or "less than x" items is inefficient. > > Right now I often see things like `if Enum.count(list) > 4 ...`, mostly > because writing a recursive `more_than?` check is tedious, or doing > something like `Enum.empty?(Enum.drop(list, 4))` is not very expressive. > > I think it would be nice to have an `Enum.more_than?` that does that work > for you. It could also be `List.more_than?/2` if we don't want it in Enum. > Any thoughts? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/263d7c39-a32b-4294-93d8-40f248c9b3c8n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/263d7c39-a32b-4294-93d8-40f248c9b3c8n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JX4NE1yWH1G5L_DjF18v8zejF0%2BSkb_oz%3DPiUHM8Mz1w%40mail.gmail.com.
