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:::::::: Normally, in all my professional travels in computer-land, I found that most users want to know ''all'' the cities whose (say) population is under five million, not just the first city in the list --- which depends on, in most cases for this Rosetta Code task, when each entry (city) was built/constructed (first come, first served, er, ··· first found). That's something most people don't care about or even know in which order the cities (entries) were "entered" (constructed). But, the task requirements are what they are. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 23:40, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
::::::::: Both finding the first match in a list, and finding all matches, are sometimes useful in practice. You're right that the data set in this task is not the best example of a useful scenario for finding the first match only, but I thought that replacing it with a different data set would be too invasive a change, so I left it as-is.
::::::::: I don't know if there's already a task for finding all matches in a list... If not, I think it should be created as a separate task under the name "'''Filter a list'''". --[[User:Smls|Smls]] ([[User talk:Smls|talk]]) 04:58, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
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