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Pascal J. Bourguignon  
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 More options Mar 4 2011, 5:11 am
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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:11:27 +0100
Local: Fri, Mar 4 2011 5:11 am
Subject: Re: PCL trash
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Edmunds Cers <edmu...@laivas.lv> writes:
> "WJ" <w_a_x_...@yahoo.com> writes:

>> While dumpster-diving, I found a discarded copy of PCL.*

> I'm sad to hear you have descended so low.

I'm more worried about how a copy of PCL landed in a dump.

>> The book devotes a whole chapter to the COBOLer's delight:
>> LOOP.  Those who aren't comfortable with higher-order functions
>> are completely dependent upon it.

> Ah, yes, lispers! They have always said we knew the value of everything
> and the cost of nothing. Would you be kind enough to rewrite the above
> so that it would traverse the list _once_ (instead of five times) to
> suite the tastes of this lowly looper?  Or would you instruct me to go
> rummage dumpsters for some cake, instead?

The problem is to find a compiler that would be able to optimize out
those five walks.

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.


 
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