---Raul Miller wrote: > Does efficiency matter here? > > If so, what's the goal of that efficiency?
I like to understand what operations/approaches are most efficient so that when it does count I can take advantage of that knowledge. For me "good" code is not resource intensive: * doesn't take long to write * doesn't take long to read * doesn't take long to run * doesn't require much space to run * generalises to many cases The best compromise of the above features will depend on the specific problem. The first two are hard to measure and probably depend to a certain extent on the reader/writer. > (I decided to use a boxed list of strings instead > of a list of characters because I would have > generalized this problem by adding more complicated > data -- as opposed to going for longer strings of > characters.) Your solution may well handle more general cases. The person who set the problem will best know how important that might be. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
