[erlang-questions] Rotating A List

[Jayson Vantuyl]

I did.  The primary reason I didn't use it is because:

* I wanted to emphasize the functional nature of gen_server.
* I wanted to show how to use a raw list for this particular user.
* I wanted to show an example of using gen_server:reply/2.
* I wanted to have a simple example that showed the division between server implementation and API.
* It would have been slower.  Note that the queue:drop/1 is O(1) amortized because of the way it handles list:reverse/1.  Without using gen_server:reply/2 the way I did, the client could block on the reverse when it didn't really need to do so.

Queue would have been slightly easier, but it wouldn't have been nearly as instructive.  :)

On Dec 15, 2009, at 5:24 PM, Chandru wrote:

> 2009/12/16 Jayson Vantuyl <kagato@REDACTED>
> I recently did some attended SF Erlounge, which was quite a nice event.  In addition to watching an excellent presentation on Erlang in the GitHub rebuild, I also fielded a few questions from some of the newer people.  One of them had a pretty simple request:
> 
> * manage a list
> * pull items off the front, but rotate them to the back
> 
> Did you consider using the queue module in the gen_server? You seem to have reinvented the core of queue!
> 
> Chandru

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