Kiryl Dziamura (Jan 30 2024 at 10:10): Kiryl Dziamura (Jan 30 2024 at 10:10):Created a ticket for absent List.walk variants
The number of combinations looks ridiculous (8 out of 16 are implemented). Does it make sense to combine at least from, until, fromUntil into a single fromUntil? It would reduce the number of variants by 8
If to use the same type as in List.range for the config, it would be possible to eliminate forward/backward difference, so start and end would affect the iteration direction. So it's 2 variants less, leaving only 6 of them:
mkrieger1 (Feb 15 2024 at 17:06):I already tripped over this while doing AoC. It baffles me that in a functional language these orthogonal concepts, "with index", "backwards", "until" are not easily composable but need dedicated functions for each combination.
Richard Feldman (Feb 15 2024 at 17:37):walkRange isn't necessary anymore thanks to seamless slices, and once we have deforestation/fusion we can replace the others with just |> List.reverse for backwards and |> List.withIndex for "with index"
Richard Feldman (Feb 15 2024 at 17:38):you can already do it today using composition, but the performance cost is very high because it requires copying the entire list
Richard Feldman (Feb 15 2024 at 17:38):so if we didn't expose some of these primitives (range is obsolete and we can get rid of those anytime), then today there would be no option but to pay that performance cost
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