Re: find first match in a sequence

2019-03-21 Thread Nathan Booth
I'm glad you pointed this out! On stackoverflow everyone was assuming filter was completely lazy in all cases On Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 4:54:53 PM UTC+2, Jim foo.bar wrote: > > ha! you cheated with iterate... > > try this which is closer to the example... > > (first (filter odd? (map #(do (prin

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Jonathan Fischer Friberg
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:54 PM, Jim - FooBar(); wrote: > ha! you cheated with iterate... > > try this which is closer to the example... > > (first (filter odd? (map #(do (println "realized " %) %) [2 4 6 7 8 9]))) > realized 2 > realized 4 > realized 6 > realized 7 > realized 8 > realized

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Mikera
On Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:18:53 UTC+8, Jeff Rose wrote: > Hi, > Is there a built-in function that will return the first item in a > collection that matches a predicate? (Something equivalent to Ruby's > Enumerable#find...) Seems pretty basic, but I can't find it in the docs. > > Than

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Jim - FooBar();
remember the 32-chunked model... :) Jim On 19/05/13 15:54, Jim - FooBar(); wrote: ha! you cheated with iterate... try this which is closer to the example... (first (filter odd? (map #(do (println "realized " %) %) [2 4 6 7 8 9]))) realized 2 realized 4 realized 6 realized 7 realized 8 r

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Jim - FooBar();
ha! you cheated with iterate... try this which is closer to the example... (first (filter odd? (map #(do (println "realized " %) %) [2 4 6 7 8 9]))) realized 2 realized 4 realized 6 realized 7 realized 8 realized 9 7 Jim On 19/05/13 15:31, Cedric Greevey wrote: On Sun, May 19, 2013 at

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Cedric Greevey
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jim - FooBar(); wrote: > no need to traverse the entire seq with 'filter' if you only want the > 1st match... > Pretty sure filter is lazy. user=> (first (filter odd? (map #(do (println "realized " %) %) (iterate inc 0 realized 0 realized 1 1 user=> --

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Kelker Ryan
Try this user> (first (drop-while even? [2 4 6 7 8 10])) 7 19.05.2013, 23:06, "Jim - FooBar();" : > no need to traverse the entire seq with 'filter' if you only want the 1st > match... > > (some #(when (odd? %) %)  [2 4 6 7 8 9]) > => 7 > > Jim > > On 19/05/13 13:42, Thumbnail wrote: > >> ... or

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Jim - FooBar();
no need to traverse the entire seq with 'filter' if you only want the 1st match... (some #(when (odd? %) %) [2 4 6 7 8 9]) => 7 Jim On 19/05/13 13:42, Thumbnail wrote: ... or just (comp first filter) ((comp first filter) odd? [2 4 6 7 8 9]) => 7 -- -- You received this message be

Re: find first match in a sequence

2013-05-19 Thread Thumbnail
... or just (comp first filter) ((comp first filter) odd? [2 4 6 7 8 9]) => 7 -- -- 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 - ple

Re: find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Meikel Brandmeyer
Hi, Am 10.02.2009 um 18:00 schrieb Jeff Rose: Oh cool! I hadn't thought about this aspect of laziness before. I can see there is some zen here that is worth exploring... Many ways to Rome: (first (drop-while (complement predicate) coll)) :) Sincerely Meikel smime.p7s Description: S/

Re: find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff Rose
Oh cool! I hadn't thought about this aspect of laziness before. I can see there is some zen here that is worth exploring... Thanks Mark and Stuart. -Jeff Mark Fredrickson wrote: > Filter is lazy: > > http://clojure.org/api#toc228 > > So you can implement find-first as (first (filter pred col

Re: find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Stuart Sierra
On Feb 10, 11:18 am, Jeff Rose wrote: >   Is there a built-in function that will return the first item in a > collection that matches a predicate?  (Something equivalent to Ruby's > Enumerable#find...)  Seems pretty basic, but I can't find it in the docs. Hi, Jeff, here's how I do it: user> (de

Re: find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Fredrickson
Filter is lazy: http://clojure.org/api#toc228 So you can implement find-first as (first (filter pred coll)) -M On Feb 10, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Jeff Rose wrote: > > Well, in case someone else needs the same function and it isn't built- > in, here's what I'm using in the meantime. (Based off of

Re: find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff Rose
Well, in case someone else needs the same function and it isn't built- in, here's what I'm using in the meantime. (Based off of the some function that comes in core...) (defn find-first [pred coll] (when (seq coll) (if (pred (first coll)) (first coll) (recur pred (rest coll

find first match in a sequence

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff Rose
Hi, Is there a built-in function that will return the first item in a collection that matches a predicate? (Something equivalent to Ruby's Enumerable#find...) Seems pretty basic, but I can't find it in the docs. Thanks, Jeff --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You receive