30 Sep
2005
30 Sep
'05
6:52 a.m.
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, gary ng wrote:
Hi,
say if I want to sum a list of numbers but only until it hits a max limit.
Currently, I control it through the function and basically do nothing when the max is hit. However, if the list is very long, would this mean the same function would be called for the rest of the list which can be a waste of cycle ?
Depends on how you implemented it. If your implementation ignores the
result of the rest of the list, then it won't be computed.
This should work as expected:
takeWhile (