April 23, 2009
8:24 p.m.
"Michael S. Gilbert" <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:
The purpose would also be efficiency. It's less efficient to check the condition m==2 during every loop iteration than it is to set up a list that excludes m=2 to begin with.
Huh? “Set up the list” involves exactly the conditional check for each item in the original sequence. So those condition checks for each item in the original sequence are going to be paid anyway. -- \ “bash awk grep perl sed, df du, du-du du-du, vi troff su fsck | `\ rm * halt LART LART LART!” —The Swedish BOFH, | _o__) alt.sysadmin.recovery | Ben Finney