Re^2: Finding missing numbers in a list

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Wow! Reduce with side effects, I've never seen that idiom. Smart.

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Re^3: Finding missing numbers in a list by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2004 at 17:11 UTC
Well, I'd probably use my mapn utility func for this, but reduce is available pretty much everywhere and lent itself to avoiding the discussion about implementation details. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Finding missing numbers in a list
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 03, 2004 at 17:11 UTC

Well, I'd probably use my mapn utility func for this, but reduce is available pretty much everywhere and lent itself to avoiding the discussion about implementation details.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail
"Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algorithm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon

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