From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2007-04-10T16:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: How to Write a Spelling Corrector

On 4/10/07, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Brian Adkins wrote:
> > 3) Minor point, but apparently Python has a built in constant for the set
> > of lower case characters "string.lowercase", so I just defined a constant.
> ...
>  > LETTERS = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>
> A minor comment: you can construct this string with
>
> ("a".."z").to_a.join
> => "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"

Almost nobody, not even the gurus ever use [*a..b] instead of (a..b).to_a.
The performance is about the same, the former seems faster for short
arrays/ranges ~ 500
and from about 1k elements the later gets slightly faster.
I feel that [*a..b] is the right/better/more logical construct to use
if one wants an array, or do I miss something?

Cheers
Robert
>
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>        vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407
>
>


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