[erlang-questions] Additions to lists module

[Dave Smith]

2008/11/26 Mazen Harake <mazen.harake@REDACTED>

> What is the idea behind pos?
>
> Curious because I have never been in a situation where I need to know
> the actual position of an element since I always assume that the order
> in a list is always undefined. Perhaps I missed something... do you have
> a practical example?
>
> /M
>
>
I'm not following. Lists are ordered and in many cases order is meaningful.
Otherwise you would never have reason to reverse a list.

There are many functions in the lists module where the result is dependant
on the lists order, and there is precedence for functions like foldlwhile;
examples (takewhile/2, dropwhile/2, splitwith/2)
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