Re: [racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-11-01 Thread Meino . Cramer
George Neuner [16-11-01 18:47]: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:47:24 +0100, Vincent St-Amour > wrote: > > >FWIW, your `find-it` is a thin wrapper over `memf` from `racket/base`. > > > >Vincent > > Sort of. In a roundabout way, the OP also asked

Re: [racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-11-01 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi Vincent, thanks for your info! :) ...but unfortunately I cannot find find-it in the docs... Cheers Meino Vincent St-Amour [16-11-01 18:47]: > FWIW, your `find-it` is a thin wrapper over `memf` from `racket/base`. > > Vincent > > > > On Tue, 01 Nov

Re: [racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-11-01 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi Ken, thanks for your reply ! :) ...sorry, I forgot to mention a certain aspect: The list begins with unwanted items and after that, all following items are wanted. Finding the first wanted item means: The search is over now, from here happiness will start! :) "Filter"ing means to crawl down

[racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-11-01 Thread Ken MacKenzie
I am wondering why not use a filter on the list? Ken On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 10:53:25 PM UTC-4, meino.cramer wrote: > Hi, > > I have a lng list of something. And I have a recursive serach > function to crawl down the list and search for a previously determined > item. > When found,

[racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-11-01 Thread George Neuner
On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 06:47:24 +0100, Vincent St-Amour wrote: >FWIW, your `find-it` is a thin wrapper over `memf` from `racket/base`. > >Vincent Sort of. In a roundabout way, the OP also asked about how to return multiple values from a function. memf doesn't do

Re: [racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-10-31 Thread Vincent St-Amour
FWIW, your `find-it` is a thin wrapper over `memf` from `racket/base`. Vincent On Tue, 01 Nov 2016 05:06:47 +0100, George Neuner wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:28:26 +0100, > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > >Hi Jon, > > > >thanks for reply! :) > > > >My plan was, to return only one

Re: [racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-10-31 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi George, thanks for your reply! :) THAT HELPS! Thanks for the look inside of racket! Cheers Meino George Neuner [16-11-01 05:20]: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:28:26 +0100, > meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > > >Hi Jon, > > > >thanks for reply! :) > > > >My plan was, to

[racket-users] Re: Recursive stepping down a list patially?

2016-10-31 Thread George Neuner
On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 04:28:26 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >Hi Jon, > >thanks for reply! :) > >My plan was, to return only one element from that list and >possibly some extra informations and pass that to the processing >function so it could right jump onto that train... > >Is that possible?