[Gllug] problems with comm

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 21:29:57 UTC 2002


On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Richard Cohen yowled:
> BTW - thanks for teaching me a new command.  I've never come across comm
> before, in fact, I think I may have implmented it by hand once or twice...
>:-)

It's astoundingly useful; you can use comm to implement both filter-in-
from-list and filter-out-from-list with great ease, without relying on
the hugely slow for loops.

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