Yep, this was my thinking too.  Maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm always
a little reluctant to make those sort of compromises when writing
general-purpose utility functions.

Mark


Andrew Baine <[email protected]> writes:

> If coll has O(n) access and we impose the restriction that indices is
> increasing (or sort it up front), we can do better than this by only
> doing one pass through coll.
>
> On Aug 18, 10:46 am, CuppoJava <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The most straight-forward answer I would have given is also:
>> (defn slice [indices coll]
>>   (map #(nth coll %) indices))
>>
>> Is there some disadvantage with this approach that I'm not seeing?

-- 
Mark Triggs
<[email protected]>

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