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Discussion on: No duplicates challenge in Elm

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1hko • Edited

Consider this implementation

noDupes : List a -> List a
noDupes list = 
    case list of
        [] ->
            []

        [ a ] ->
            [ a ]

        a :: b :: more ->
            if a == b then
                noDupes (a :: more)
            else
                a :: noDupes (b :: more)

When we test it

noDupes [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 4]
-- [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 4 ] : List number

noDupes ["a", "b", "b", "c", "c", "c", "d", "d", "c" ]
-- [ "a", "b", "c", "d", "c" ] : List String
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Anton

I had this noDupes (a :: more) in the else branch when experimented with the code but didn't consider putting that in the first branch.

Thank you. I appreciate your help.