"Nobody tells people who are beginners" ~ IRA GLASS
Ira Glass's advice for beginners:
In the following video, Ira Glass explains the above presentation:
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Scala Hacking: Computing min and max of a List
There are several ways to accomplish this. Next code snippet shows how to compute min and max using reduceLeft.
val ls = List(1,2,3,4,5)
ls.reduceLeft(_ min _) // is equivalent to