From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates
Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:24 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87issbhjqj.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xy7llxb6p3w.fsf@nada.kth.se> (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Tue, 13 May 2003 13:52:03 +0200")
Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt@nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> ...and I think "cmp" is cryptic, arbitrary and ugly,
And suggests to me a positive, negative, or zero to give an ordering.
Too much C programming I guess ...
> And if you guys anyway want to change it, please 1. give it a readable
> name (e.g. equal-predicate?), and 2. make sure to put a `?' after it
> (if it is a textual name) to indicate that it is a predicate.
Is a predicate normally thought of as a function taking one argument?
I suppose it can be used more loosely than that.
"equal-proc?" might be a possibility.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-15 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-12 23:50 doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates Kevin Ryde
2003-05-13 2:26 ` Rob Browning
2003-05-13 9:25 ` tomas
2003-05-13 11:52 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-13 13:31 ` tomas
2003-05-13 18:40 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2003-05-14 8:15 ` tomas
2003-05-15 23:29 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
2003-05-15 23:47 ` Paul Jarc
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