From: dblack@...
Date: 2006-11-21T00:07:14+09:00
Subject: Re: #returning and #tap

Hi --

On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, spooq wrote:

>> We're probably at the agree-to-disagree stage, but hopefully it's been
>> of interest to both of us and anyone interested in the topic.
>
> We probably are at that stage, but the journey was definitely
> worthwhile, so thanks :)

I'll just add that I now see exactly what you mean about mixing the
two techniques.  And definitely -- one would want to be very careful
and selective.  One variation on the theme might be cases where
in-place operations saved some memory, even if you end up throwing the
object away; so the dual fact that the end result was a different
object, *and* one of the intermediate objects had in-place stuff done
to it, might be OK.


David

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