I agree on the name feeling subpar :) I’ll take a look and see if I can find other examples.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:21 PM José Valim <jose.va...@dashbit.co> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JX4NE1yWH1G5L_DjF18v8zejF0%2BSkb_oz%3DPiUHM8Mz1w%40mail.gmail.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/CAK-yb0CA6fNOSCM8wdktcpukLiOe8kRRB9tASxeJVmdSgUJO4A%40mail.gmail.com.
