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1 point by evanrmurphy 4824 days ago | link | parent

Was he calling it a simplification of one of waterhouse's more complex snippets, such as the one below?

   (= the-piles
       (join (take (- n 1) the-piles)
             (list:cons (list (car the-piles.n) t) (cdr the-piles.n))
             (drop n the-piles)))


1 point by rocketnia 4824 days ago | link

That's definitely what I meant, and I was going to just say so, but whan I saw the ":)" I realized akkartik probably knew that and meant something like "that may not be 'oh god' complicated, but it's still not nearly as convenient as the mutating code." I don't know if that's a correct interpretation, but it made it more interesting to respond. ^_^

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1 point by akkartik 4823 days ago | link

No I didn't think about it nearly that much, just misunderstood which snippet you were responding to :/

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1 point by rocketnia 4823 days ago | link

Oh, then I'm glad that's resolved now. XD;;

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