On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 6:46 AM, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyway, the whole linked list is unnecessary if the iterable can be iterated over multiple times. But "tee" won't know when to do that. *That* is what I call overhead (unless of course all the tee branches are consumed in an interleaved manner).
But if you have something you can iterate over multiple times, why bother with tee at all? Just take N iterators from the underlying iterable. The overhead is intrinsic to the value of the function.
Indeed. But if you have, say, an Iterable[int], you don't know if you need
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 11:55 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote: the additional buffer or not. It could be a range object or a set or a generator (or iterator), who knows. Even your type checker doesn't know what you need. -- Koos -- + Koos Zevenhoven + http://twitter.com/k7hoven +