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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: srfi-1 take and drop
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 11:35:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874r45s8g1.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m31xz9h0y6.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (Paul Jarc's message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 12:12:11 -0400")

prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:

> Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> wrote:
>> Yep, I have a "take" I haven't committed yet that avoids both stack
>> growth and reverse! by tracking the end pair...
>
> Are you using (ice-9 q)?  It seems to be the right tool for that job.

Nope.  Didn't even know that was there.  I had just done this as a
first pass:

  (define (take lst k)
    ;; avoid a reverse! or stack growth -- easy on the cache,
    ;; hard on the eyes...
    (cond
     ((zero? k) '())
     ((negative? k) (error "negative count in call to take."))
     (else
      (let ((result (cons (car lst) '())))
        (let lp ((n (- k 1)) (rest (cdr lst)) (end-pair result))
          (if (zero? n)
              result
              (let ((new-end (cons (car rest) '())))
                (set-cdr! end-pair new-end)
                (lp (- n 1) (cdr rest) new-end))))))))

though thanks for pointing out (ice-9 q).  That might be a better idea...

-- 
Rob Browning
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      reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-05 23:14 srfi-1 take and drop Kevin Ryde
2003-05-06  1:30 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-06  1:58   ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-06  3:02     ` Rob Browning
2003-05-06  3:04     ` Rob Browning
2003-05-08  0:00       ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-08 16:37         ` Rob Browning
2003-05-09 22:38           ` Kevin Ryde
2003-05-08 16:12       ` Paul Jarc
2003-05-08 16:35         ` Rob Browning [this message]

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