On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Chouser <chou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Jon Seltzer <seltzer1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I know what assoc does:
> >
> > user=> (assoc [\a \b \c] 0 \d)  ;please extend to much larger vector
> > with index somewhere in the middle
> > [\d \b \c]
> >
> > but what if I want:
> >
> > user=> (assoc-x [\a \b \c] 0 \d)  ;is there an assoc-x
> > [\a \d \b \c]
> >
> > I don't see a function that does this.  I'm sure I'm missing it.  I,
> > of course, know this could be done with a combination of other
> > functions like subvec and/or into but it seems fundamental enough to
> > have its function.
>
> The internal structure of vectors is such that this cannot be
> done efficiently, which is why no function to do it is included
> in clojure.core.  You can do it inefficiently like this:
>
>    (let [v '[a b c d e f]
>          i 3]
>      (into (subvec v 0 i) (cons 'X (subvec v i))))
>    ;=> [a b c X d e f]
>
> That's about as good as you're going to get with vectors, O(n)
> where n is (- (count v) i).
>
> --Chouser
> http://joyofclojure.com/

How is the performance of your FingerTrees looking? ;)

David

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