Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread Felix
For a Scheme (who would never ever - promised - participate in a religious war ;-) the file kinda feels like Felix haven read too much CL recently. Yes, that may be, but being able to use a common API over various sequences appears to be something that especially newcomers to chicken might

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread Felix
From: Jörg F. Wittenberger joerg.wittenber...@softeyes.net Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:59:25 +0100 Am Sonntag, den 21.11.2010, 18:08 +0100 schrieb Felix: So, I wonder, why not use the same conventions? Instead, I see names like 'size', 'elt', etc

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Montag, den 22.11.2010, 03:55 -0500 schrieb Felix: If I had to deal with a name clash, I'd just put a renamer-module in between. This winds up in *much* less mental effort, than memorising new terms or abbreviations for the same argument structure (modulo some type replacements).

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Montag, den 22.11.2010, 03:11 -0500 schrieb Felix: For a Scheme (who would never ever - promised - participate in a religious war ;-) the file kinda feels like Felix haven read too much CL recently. Yes, that may be, but being able to use a common API over various sequences

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Montag, den 22.11.2010, 15:03 +0100 schrieb Jörg F. Wittenberger: Am Montag, den 22.11.2010, 03:11 -0500 schrieb Felix: For a Scheme (who would never ever - promised - participate in a religious war ;-) the file kinda feels like Felix haven read too much CL recently. Yes,

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-22 Thread F. Wittenberger
Great, forgot the link How about stealing most from SRFI-1 like this? ... which does not actually work because - an error in srfi-1 reference, which is fixed in chicken - a typo - an logical error when it comes to repeated traversal of a sequence in the weird case. here's a better

[Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-21 Thread Felix
From: Hans Nowak zephyrfal...@gmail.com Subject: Re: sequences egg Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:26:27 -0500 On 11/18/10 10:03 AM, Felix wrote: I've put together a little library of generic sequence operations, and would like to get some feedback, since I'm not sure about the nomenclature and

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-21 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Samstag, den 20.11.2010, 15:26 -0500 schrieb Hans Nowak: On 11/18/10 10:03 AM, Felix wrote: I've put together a little library of generic sequence operations, and would like to get some feedback, since I'm not sure about the nomenclature and API. Find it here:

Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-21 Thread F. Wittenberger
Am Sonntag, den 21.11.2010, 18:08 +0100 schrieb Felix: So, I wonder, why not use the same conventions? Instead, I see names like 'size', 'elt', etc. Wouldn't it be clearer to use names like sequence-length, or, if that is too verbose, seq-length, etc...? I wanted to avoid name-clashes.

[Chicken-users] Re: sequences egg

2010-11-20 Thread Hans Nowak
On 11/18/10 10:03 AM, Felix wrote: I've put together a little library of generic sequence operations, and would like to get some feedback, since I'm not sure about the nomenclature and API. Find it here: http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/sequences And in the repo, usual place. It has a