[erlang-questions] To name a function

[Morten Krogh]

Hi

As soon as you have seen both an element that satisfies the condition 
and one that doesn't, you can return "some", making a full list 
traversal overkill for many inputs.

Morten.

On 12/15/10 6:13 PM, Attila Rajmund Nohl wrote:
> 2010/12/15, Ryan Zezeski<rzezeski@REDACTED>:
>> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Attila Rajmund Nohl<
>> attila.r.nohl@REDACTED>  wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> I've found at least places in my code where I'd need a function which
>>> decides if all, some or none members of a list have a particular
>>> property (the list always has at least one element). How to name this
>>> function? The code is something like this:
>>>
>>> f(_F, []) ->
>>>   erlang:error({badarg, []});
>>>
>>> f(F, L) ->
>>>   {Has, Not} =
>>>     lists:foldr(
>>>       fun(E, {H, N}) ->
>>>         case f(E) of
>>>           true ->  {H+1, N};
>>>           false ->  {H, N+1}
>>>         end
>>>       end, {0,0}, L),
>>>   case {Has, Not} of
>>>     {0, _} ->  none;
>>>     {_, 0} ->  all;
>>>     _ ->  some
>>>   end.
>>>
>>>
>> Well, I wouldn't give it any style points but I came up with all_some_none.
>>   Also, instead of using fold you could make use of lists:all/2 and
>> lists:filter/2.
> I could, but that would traverse the list twice (with the length()
> guard three times). I don't expect the lists I'm using this function
> on to have more than 2000 elements, so on contemporary hardware this
> difference is probably not noticeable.
>
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