On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> I think the proper way of thinking Racket-y is to re-consider the input
> representation:
>
> (define our-list '(("a" 1) ("b" 2.5) ("c" #t) ("d" "hi")))
> (string-join (map (match-lambda [`(,l ,v) (format "[~a=~a]" l v)]) our-list))
>
> You really want labels and values to be clearly paired, and the above
> representation does that.
>
Absolutely -- the problem is ill-defined for flat lists with odd
lengths. (This is also a problem for `hash` and friends, which is why
I expressed doubt that it was a happy accident that `hash` also
happens to accept a flat list.) I was just assuming that the input
format was non-negotiable.
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