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True, but you still need the whole list for the first pass.

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Re^7: Better mousetrap (getting top N values from list X)
by sleepingsquirrel (Chaplain) on Feb 03, 2005 at 23:29 UTC
    So?

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      So,...you said:

      ...if you had lazy lists (coming in perl6)...

      And I couldn't see how lazy lists would benefit this problem; hence my original question (way back up there^^^ somewhere).

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        You're correct, sort is strict on its input arguments (i.e. it has to evaluate each one), but the importance of laziness comes about because the output is a lazy list.

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