comments on generators Per Bothner (10 Jan 2016 03:26 UTC)
Re: comments on generators Shiro Kawai (10 Jan 2016 03:54 UTC)
Re: comments on generators Per Bothner (11 Jan 2016 06:29 UTC)
Re: comments on generators John Cowan (11 Jan 2016 01:38 UTC)

Re: comments on generators John Cowan 11 Jan 2016 01:38 UTC

Per Bothner scripsit:

> Overall, this seems a useful and reasonable SRFI.  However,
> I reserve judgment about whether it belongs in R7RS-large.

Yes, this isn't the time or place to make that decision yet.  The time
will probably be March and the place will be the WG2 mailing list.

> make-bits-generator n

Your point is well-taken.  I will suppress this generator and bring
something like it back when I consider bit vectors based on bignums
(for the Orange Edition).

> gcombine proc seed gen gen2 …
> IMO It would be more natural for proc to not take a seed.
> Instead we should standardize gmap:

Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> Given that generators are inherently stateful object, it may not be
> as important to have both gcombine and gmap as to have both map-accum
> and map.

That is exactly why I flushed gmap.

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