On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Alexandre Porres wrote:
hi folks, is there any easy and straightforward way to find what is the index, on a table, of some value? Like by sending to some object its value?
[listfind] from GridFlow does it from a list.
It doesn't contain an optimisation specifically for sorted lists, though.
You can make an abstraction that does it with a sorted list or table in O(log n) time by recursive binary partitioning.
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