Thanks - useful idioms to know about!
On Friday, 18 July 2014 16:18:33 UTC+9:30, puzzler wrote:
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> Yeah, you've answered your own question. In practice, I doubt the
> difference is measurable.
>
> Another common idiom you see in Clojure code is:
> (defn f [xs]
> (if-let [s (seq xs)]
> ...
Hi Gary,
I wrote my initial post in January, but I just wanted to say... Thanks for
taking the time to write your reply - I very much appreciated it.
I suspect I will be writing algorithms in C++ for a while to come, but at
some point I hope to do comparisons with Clojure versions.
Regards,
k.
On Friday, 18 July 2014 14:39:53 UTC+9:30, Mark Phillips wrote:
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> Thanks again - that all makes sense.
>
> One (hopefully) tiny question... an efficiency one... (and feel free not
> to answer it if I've already taken up enough of your time)
>
> If you do that and are c
Thanks again - that all makes sense.
One (hopefully) tiny question... an efficiency one... (and feel free not to
answer it if I've already taken up enough of your time)
If you do that and are careful, the performance of next/nil? is slightly
> better than rest/empty?.
>
If I use the next/nil?
