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Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?
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Dirk Herrmann |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong? |
Date: |
Sat, 12 May 2001 09:42:29 +0200 (MEST) |
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Keith Wright wrote:
> > From: Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden>
> >
> > This might, by the way, be a sensible way to deal with these things: In
> > addition to the RnRS style functions, there are additinal ones with a '*',
> > using the meaning of the '*' in regexps to indicate repetition from zero
> > up to an infinite number of times: =*?, eq*?, eqv*? ...
[...]
> R5RS already _requires_ = to take two or more arguments. So =*?
> is redundant (and ugly and hard to type).
Ooops. :-)
And, from a different mail from Keith:
> I would leave it alone. Guile has never been afraid to
> extend R5RS. It has gone too far in worse ways than this.
I disagree. IMO, we should have a way to provide strict RnRS behaviour.
It's easy to also provide the alternative and extended definitions in a
separate module. We could argue, however, which of the definitions should
be guile's default.
Best regards,
Dirk Herrmann
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, (continued)
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Keith Wright, 2001/05/11
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, 2001/05/09
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, 2001/05/09
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Neil Jerram, 2001/05/11
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Dirk Herrmann, 2001/05/11
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?, Keith Wright, 2001/05/11
- Re: Bug in and-map and or-map? What am I doing wrong?,
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