[erlang-questions] The Beauty of Erlang Syntax

[Zvi]

to be future-proof and GPU-compatible, you need to define
foreach/fold_NDrange, where NDrange is N-dimensional space :)


Michael Radford-3 wrote:
> 
> Hynek Vychodil writes:
>> But anyway, how often you need do something N times without take care for
>> result for *practical* purpose? I think you choose wrong example ;-)
> 
> Off-topic, but it's funny there are no standard library functions
> (AFAIK) that simply iterate over a range of integers.
> 
> The common idiom seems to be to use lists:seq and a list iterator
> function like lists:foreach or lists:foldl.  Which, I will preemptively
> agree, is clear and efficient enough for most purposes.  (Is the
> compiler smart enough to optimize away the construction of the list of
> integers in cases like that?)
> 
> But still, if there were standard functions like these I would use them
> all the time:
> 	foreach_range (fun (I) -> ... end, 1, 10)
> 	foldl_range (fun (I, Acc) -> ... end, Acc0, 1, 10)
> 
> Mike
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