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

[Dmitry Kolesnikov]

Hello,

This is correct behavior.

http://erldocs.com/17.5/stdlib/lists.html?i=1&search=lists:drop#dropwhile/2
"Drops elements Elem from List1 while Pred(Elem) returns true and returns the remaining list."

Your first case: the predicate return true, empty list is the correct result.
Your second case: the predicate return false for the first element, remaining list is returned.

- Dmitry  


> On Feb 21, 2016, at 2:39 PM, fxmy wang <fxmywc@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
> Hello guys,
> 
> Just encountered this:
> Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.0.3] [source-5991161] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
> 
> Eshell V7.0.3  (abort with ^G
> )
> 
> 1> F = fun(_) -> true end
> .
> 
> #Fun<erl_eval.6.54118792
> >
> 
> 2> K = fun(Elem) -> Elem > 3 end
> .
> 
> #Fun<erl_eval.6.54118792
> >
> 
> 3> lists:dropwhile(F, [1,2,3,4,5
> ]).
> []
> 
> 4> lists:dropwhile(K, [1,2,3,4,5
> ]).
> [
> 1,2,3,4,5
> ]
> 
> Is this behavior expected?
> Am I missing something?
> 
> ​​
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ​Cheers,
> 
> 
> Fxmy.​
> 
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