From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Ryde Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: doco srfi-1 delete, delete-duplicates Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:24 +1000 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87issbhjqj.fsf@zip.com.au> References: <87fznj2097.fsf@zip.com.au> <87u1bzponh.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <20030513092528.GB28885@www> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053041822 13067 80.91.224.249 (15 May 2003 23:37:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 23:37:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 01:37:00 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GSGe-0003LF-00 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 01:36:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GSHY-0001EL-00 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:37:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GSFu-000158-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GSFG-0000bE-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from snoopy.pacific.net.au ([61.8.0.36]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19GSAS-0007oZ-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 19:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from sunny.pacific.net.au (sunny.pacific.net.au [203.2.228.40]) h4FNTfPc002262 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:41 +1000 Original-Received: from wisma.pacific.net.au (wisma.pacific.net.au [210.23.129.72]) by sunny.pacific.net.au with ESMTP id h4FNTfQg019745 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:41 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from localhost (ppp33.dyn228.pacific.net.au [203.143.228.33]) by wisma.pacific.net.au (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4FNTcYZ007897 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:40 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from gg by localhost with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19GSA9-00017j-00; Fri, 16 May 2003 09:29:25 +1000 Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never In-Reply-To: (Mikael Djurfeldt's message of "Tue, 13 May 2003 13:52:03 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2363 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2363 Mikael Djurfeldt 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. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel