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		gmaster1440 on Oct 8, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challen... Nice and short Haskell solution to #3: http://gist.github.com/617675 Ruby solutions to #1 and #2: http://gist.github.com/617676 http://gist.github.com/617678

thomie on Oct 10, 2010 [–]

Nice, but don't compute the length of a list if you don't have to.

(not . null) instead of (\x -> length x > 1) is shorter, and works on infinite lists also.

Edit: well, in case you would test for x>0.

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