range chunks

Peter Alexander peter.alexander.au at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 07:49:15 PDT 2010


On 7/08/10 3:06 PM, bearophile wrote:
> Peter Alexander:
>> (I just Googled for "quicksort pseudocode" and sure enough, all of the
>> top 10 entries that actually contained code defined a partition function
>> that does what std.algorithm.partition does).
>
> Yes, it's named partition in my implementations of Quicksort too :-) So it's better to find a different name for the other one.

Hmm, how about kPartitions?

e.g. kPartitions([1,2,3,4,5,6], 3) == [[1,2,3], [4,5,6]]

A k-partition is common terminology for partitioning a set into 
k-element subsets, so that seems to fit, and isn't too verbose.



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