Re: [Haskell-cafe] k-minima in Haskell

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You may be missing a few recursive calls there :-)

Indeed.

I'm confused. Is this a legitimate stable quicksort, or not? (My guess is, it is indeed legit as written.) This was also the first I have heard of stability as a sort property. http://perldoc.perl.org/sort.html may shed some light on this... "A stable sort means that for records that compare equal, the original input ordering is preserved. Mergesort is stable, quicksort is not. " Is this description a fair characterization of stability for the current discussion? I'm a bit confused but if I understand correctly sort from the prelude is non stable quicksort, which has O(k n^2) as the worst case, whereas stable quicksort has O( k* log n + n). non-stable quicksort is just sort from the prelude: qsort [] = [] qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs) If any in the above was incorrect, please holler. 2007/4/12, Stefan O'Rear :

On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:20:12PM -0700, Tim Chevalier wrote:

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On 4/11/07, Stefan O'Rear wrote:

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If you want to be really explicit about it, here is a sort that will work:

sort [] = [] sort l@(x:_) = filter (x) l

(A stable quicksort, btw)

You may be missing a few recursive calls there :-)

Indeed.

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