[erlang-questions] re moving nth element from a list

[Anupam Kapoor]

Paulo Sérgio Almeida <psa@REDACTED> wrote:
> This is one of those cases where it is not necessarily better to use 
> tail calls; one must measure what happens. Here are two versions:
>
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| > Body recursive:
| >
| > remove(_, []) -> [];
| > remove(1, [_|T]) -> T;
| > remove(N, [H|T]) -> [H | remove(N-1, T)].
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this looks pretty nice ! thanks.

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| > Tail recursive:
| >
| > remove2(N, L) -> remove2(N, L, []).
| > remove2(_, [], Acc) -> lists:reverse(Acc);
| > remove2(1, [_|T], Acc) -> lists:reverse(Acc, T);
| > remove2(N, [H|T], Acc) -> remove2(N-1, T, [H|Acc]).
| >
| > The second one seems to be better for removing near the end of a large
| > list, due to lists:reverse being builtin.
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true.

kind regards
anupam