From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2004-06-28T00:08:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Writing UNIX 'wc' program

Florian Gross <flgr@ccan.de> wrote:
> George Ogata wrote:
> 
> > #max, like #sort, takes a block.  That good enough, isn't it?
> 
> It's not as comfortable as a #max_by that would use a Schwartzian 
> transform IMHO.

It's irrelevant - max only traverses the list once anyway, so each list
element is preprocessed only once. The Schwartzian transform wouldn't
make any difference.

martin