Re: [racket-dev] Feature request- combined argmin and argmax in a single function

2012-06-27 Thread Doug Williams
The science collection already has such a function (minimum-maximum a-sequence) that works for any sequence - e.g., lists or vectors. For example: #lang racket (require (planet williams/science/science)) (minimum-maximum (for/list ((i (in-range 10))) (random-unit-gaussian))) (minimum-ma

[racket-dev] Feature request- combined argmin and argmax in a single function

2012-06-27 Thread Harry Spier
It might be useful to add to the language a combined function such as (argminmax proc lst) that returned both the minimum and maximum values of applying proc to lst. So that for very large lists (or for very large numbers of lists where you need to know the min and max values in the lists) instea