[Fwd: Re: func to remove dupes]

[Christoph Schulz]

Erroneously replied to the OP only.

Regards,
  Christoph

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Betreff: Re: func to remove dupes
Datum: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:05:15 +0200
Von: Christoph Schulz <address@hidden>
An: Stephan Beal <address@hidden>
Referenzen: <address@hidden>

Hello Stephan!

Stephan Beal schrieb:
> Hi, all!
> 
> i've created a function which removes duplicates from a list while 
> keeping their relative order untouched (code is below). While it 
> appears to work fine, i'm not at all happy with the temp var it uses
> ($(remove-dupes-holder)). Is there anyone out there who would care
> to take a crack at improving this function, so that it doesn't need
> the extra variable (or any improvement, for that matter)?
> [...]

What about

listUnique = $(if $1,$(strip $(word 1,$1) $(call $0,$(filter-out $(word
1,$1),$1))))

?

Regards,
  Christoph