[erlang-questions] Weird lists:dropwhile/2 behavior?

[fxmy wang]

Thanks guys, somehow the doc gives me a feeling that lists:dropwhile will
scan through all the list no matter Pred(Elem) returns 'true' or 'false'. =)

Cheers

2016-02-21 21:36 GMT+08:00 Jesper Louis Andersen <
jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED>:

>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:39 PM, fxmy wang <fxmywc@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Is this behavior expected?
>
>
> yes. To make it explicit:
>
> In lists:dropwhile(fun(E) -> E > 3 end, [1,2,3,4,5]), we first check if 1
> > 3. This is false, so we stop dropping and return the remainder of the
> list, which is [1,2,3,4,5].
>
>
> --
> J.
>
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