Re: return first element in list with certain property

[Michael Heerdegen]

"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net> writes:

> No matter how long the list is, it traversing it twice will only take
> at most twice as long.

Hey, you would not say that if you had to traverse the list yourself ;-)

When I optimize my own code, I always imagine I would have to perform
the algorithm myself.  Then you get a good feeling where it's worth to
optimize and where not.


Michael.