[erlang-questions] Human readable errors in lists module

[Zvi]

I was talking about parallel-comprehensions aka zip-comprehensions, not
parallelized comprehensions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension#Parallel_list_comprehension

Zvi


Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) wrote:
> 
> Zvi skrev:
>> I think instead of "fixing" lists:zipwith, it's better to add
>> parallel list comprehensions, i.e.:
>> 
>> lists:zipwith(F, Xs, Ys) = [F(X,Y) || X<-Xs ; Y<-Ys].
>> 
>> Note ";" instead of ",".
> 
> 
> This is actually more difficult than it seems
> at first glance.
> 
> I went through parallelization of lists:map/2
> as an exercise in a recent presentation:
> 
> http://ulf.wiger.net/weblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/damp09-erlang-multicore.pdf
> 
> The things that need careful consideration are
> side-effects and exceptions. It's not obvious how
> a generic implementation should behave, as there is
> a cost/safety tradeoff.
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W
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