actually never-mind, I got hooked by the "Libs like lodash and lazy.js
provide the bits you need" and thought you were using those functions as if
magically wrapped in a `with` statement ... oh well, sorry for the noise:
keep "iterating"
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Andrea Giammarchi <
andrea.giammar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> nope, I know it wasn't the bext example, but if you use Array methods as
> iterators examples I think I have a problem understanding what you are
> talking about.
>
> What you rote, in a JS Array world, is wasteful, and bad/non-optimal usage
> of Array patterns we have/know already.
>
> Maybe that's not the point you are trying to make, but surely mine, and
> when I read breaking change API and see non optimal patterns I believe the
> vision is not clear for everyone about where we are, and where we are
> moving.
>
> Apologies if that's not the reply you were hoping for
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:02 AM, Alexander Jones <a...@weej.com> wrote:
>
>> It's not wasteful if, as I said, they are iterator-consuming functions.
>> I'm not sure why you think mutating a closed-over variable is better or
>> more efficient code. Email me off list and I'll explain, or just look up
>> the Python 3 map and filter (or Python 2 itertools equivalents).
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, Andrea Giammarchi <andrea.giammar...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> not sure if off topic but
>>>
>>> * you need a with statement to use lodash like that
>>> * ... the following ...
>>>
>>> ```
>>> let found = first(filter(
>>> map(files, _ => path.resolve(base, _)),
>>> fs.existsSync
>>> ));
>>> ```
>>>
>>> is a very wasteful pattern ... have you ever heard of `some` ?
>>>
>>> ```
>>> let found;
>>> some(files, _ => fs.existsSync(found = path.resolve(base, _)) || (found
>>> = '') || false);
>>> ```
>>>
>>> It could bring few alchemies in ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:14 PM, Alexander Jones <a...@weej.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need lazy sequences aka iterators. They give you the rather optimal:
>>>>
>>>> let found = first(filter(
>>>> map(files, _ => path.resolve(base, _)),
>>>> fs.existsSync
>>>> ));
>>>>
>>>> Libs like lodash and lazy.js provide the bits you need, which are
>>>> actually fairly trivial to build on top of nice new ES6 iterators if you
>>>> want.
>>>>
>>>> Alex
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tuesday, April 7, 2015, Martin Heidegger <martin.heideg...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am probably very late to the game but I just read about harmonies
>>>>> “Array.prototype.find” and found that it might be worth considering a
>>>>> change in way it works. Its not a drastic change but it would break the
>>>>> compatibility to the current setup. I understand that the chances for this
>>>>> going through will be slim but since I would like to give it a shot
>>>>> anyways:
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently the API uses a callback function that has to return a
>>>>> boolean to identify the item that has been found. This is good because
>>>>> find
>>>>> & findIndex can use the same methods but it also has a drawback.
>>>>>
>>>>> Problem: Say you have a list of items that need to be processed before
>>>>> you know if you “found” the item. Then you will need to process the last
>>>>> item again since there is no way to “keep” the result (A) of the find
>>>>> method or you preprocess all items using map (B) that will require to
>>>>> process all the items even if the first one already matches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Example:
>>>>>
>>>>> (BASE)
>>>>> var files = [“main.md”, “backup.md”]
>>>>> var base = “/my/root"
>>>>>
>>>>> (A)
>>>>> // Specifies `path.resolve` on two places
>>>>> var found = files.find(function (file) {
>>>>> return fs.existsSync(path.resolve(base, file))
>>>>> }))
>>>>> if (found)
>>>>> found = path.resolve(base, file)
>>>>>
>>>>> (B)
>>>>> // Runs `path.resolve` for all items
>>>>> var found = files.map(function (file) {
>>>>> return path.resolve(base, file)
>>>>> }).find(fs.existsSync)
>>>>>
>>>>> Proposal (C): I think it might be interesting to have a change of the
>>>>> signature so that the return value is not true/false but the value that
>>>>> actually will be returned (not undefined):
>>>>>
>>>>> (C)
>>>>> var found = files.find(function (file) {
>>>>> file = path.resolve(base, file)
>>>>> if(fs.existsSync(file))
>>>>> return file
>>>>> });
>>>>>
>>>>> This way the operations would be minimised, it is still few to write
>>>>> and it would make life a bit easier.
>>>>>
>>>>> yours
>>>>> Martin Heidegger
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