[erlang-questions] Re: Matrix rotator

[Johnny Billquist]

John Haugeland wrote:
>>> Doing something like this is both easier and much faster on tuples, at
>>> which point Mr. Billquist's strategy of construction through item
>>> lookup becomes the preferred method (in lists, the cost of iterating
>>> each list for each item is prohibitive.)
>> I did say it was a trivial implementation, not an efficient one. :-)
> 
> I apologize; I had not meant that to be critical, though in retrospect
> I can see that it appears that way.  Such was not my intent.  What I
> was trying (and failing) to do was to point out an unspoken
> understanding which you clearly have, but which many novices will not.
> 
> I had meant you no disrespect.  I only meant to highlight a concern
> which I suspected third parties with little experience might be
> unaware of.  There are many people on this list who are new to
> software engineering, and I cannot count the number of times I've seen
> novices on IRC be shocked that things like that aren't free.
> 
> I'll look for a different way to raise for attention things like that
> in the future.  Again, my apologies if you felt I was criticizing you.

Hey, I took it with a smile. Just pointing it out so that people don't 
make too many assumptions about me from a piece of code like this.

	Johnny

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