Yep, this was my thinking too. Maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm always a little reluctant to make those sort of compromises when writing general-purpose utility functions.
Mark Andrew Baine <andrew.ba...@gmail.com> writes: > If coll has O(n) access and we impose the restriction that indices is > increasing (or sort it up front), we can do better than this by only > doing one pass through coll. > > On Aug 18, 10:46 am, CuppoJava <patrickli_2...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> The most straight-forward answer I would have given is also: >> (defn slice [indices coll] >> (map #(nth coll %) indices)) >> >> Is there some disadvantage with this approach that I'm not seeing? -- Mark Triggs <mark.h.tri...@gmail.com> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---