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Aren't I then computing the value of total_len for my largest object numerous times? That was why I went for the map, it made some sense to pre-compute the lengths and then find the largest one. Certainly I could implement some caching mechanism but that would come with some implementation complexity?

In hindsight the second solution was obvious :) But can you explain your ideal solution more? Is it something that can be accomplished in Javascript?

One bit of trouble I have with functional style programming is something like the following example: if I have an array of people with firstName and lastName properties, how would I go about returning the person with the longest full name without adding any properties directly to the objects? It is a simple map then reduce to return the maximum length, a fairly trivial modification thereof to return the full name, but when I want to return the original object, I can't think of a good way to do this.

The best I can figure is first mapping to a nested array where the first element is the object and the second is the computed property but that seems really messy. Thoughts?

1. Don't use with. It's hard to reason about, and it breaks many compiler optimizations (you're adding a dynamic object into the scope chain).

2. Just don't ever use == or !=. Forget they exist. Done.

Yeah I'm getting the same behavior. When you patch it, can you let me know?

The docs say that this will work best on a unix like system but doesn't say what that means or whether it will work on Windows. Has anyone tried this on Windows? Does it work?