Proposal: count David Van Horn (20 Sep 2009 22:58 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count Alexey Radul (21 Sep 2009 00:00 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count David Van Horn (21 Sep 2009 00:04 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count Alexey Radul (21 Sep 2009 00:44 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count David Van Horn (21 Sep 2009 15:24 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count Taylor R Campbell (21 Sep 2009 00:51 UTC)
Re: Proposal: count David Van Horn (21 Sep 2009 14:56 UTC)

Re: Proposal: count David Van Horn 21 Sep 2009 00:04 UTC

Alexey Radul wrote:
> My only worry is that the name 'count' clashes with a traditional name
> for a procedure that counts the number of elements of a collection
> that satisfy some predicate (and could therefore be confusing, in
> addition to causing actual name collisions).  I do not, however, have
> a concrete suggestion for doing better.

Yep -- it clashes with SRFI 1's `count', for example.  I am really only
worried about the confusion part.  The library system lets me not worry
too much about name clashes (hence my use of cons, car, cdr, ...).

If anyone has a better name, I'd like to hear it.

David