[erlang-bugs] lists:dropwhile

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

The documentation of dropwhile/ 2 says:

"Drops elements Elem from List1 while Pred(Elem) returns true and
returns the remaining list."


bengt

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 09:55 -0400, Matt Handler wrote:
> dropwhile does not work properly as defined in R12B-2:
> 
> 01 dropwhile(Pred, [Hd|Tail]=Rest) ->
> 02    case Pred(Hd) of
> 03       true -> dropwhile(Pred, Tail);
> 04       false -> Rest
> 05    end;
> 06 dropwhile(Pred, []) when is_function(Pred, 1) -> [].
> 
> it returns the entire list once it finds an element that doesn't match
> true.
> 
> here's what i did instead:
> 
> dropwhile(Fun, List) ->
>     [Element || 
>     Element <- List,
>     Fun(Element) =/= true].    
> 
> thanks,
> -matt
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