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Minor comments on SRFI 121 "last call" draft. Sudarshan S Chawathe (22 Oct 2015 15:16 UTC)
Re: Minor comments on SRFI 121 "last call" draft. John Cowan (23 Oct 2015 11:54 UTC)

Re: Minor comments on SRFI 121 "last call" draft. John Cowan 23 Oct 2015 11:54 UTC

Sudarshan S Chawathe scripsit:

>     I didn't understand it at this point (and so just skipped over,
>     without any problems). It also took me a while to figure it out
>     when I returned to it after reading the rest.  An example near the
>     end of the SRFI, where generator-unfold is defined, would be a big
>     help, I think.

Example added that converts vectors to lists.

>   * There is a typo "itt" in the Rationale text.

Fixed.

>   * make-bits-generator: To check my understanding, there is no
>     (simple) way to use this procedure to create a generator that
>     gives a single 0 or 1 bit, correct?

That appears to be correct.

>   * make-port-generator: I believe the bold instances of "port" in the
>     description should read "input-port".

Fixed.

>   * make-port-generator: The finiteness of the resulting generator
>     also depends on 'reader', correct?  It would probably be very odd,
>     but the description seems to permit 'reader' to do things other
>     than returning an eof-object when data from the port is exhausted.

Note to that effect added.

>   * Is it true that there is no tail-call guarantee for gappend?

Correct.

>   * Including duplicates in the example for gdelete may provide a
>     better illustration of its action:
>
>     (generator->list (gdelete (make-generator 1 2 3 4 5 3 6 7)))
>     => (1 2 4 5 6 7)

Done.

>   * Similar to above, to illustrate gdelete-neighbor-dups:
>
>     (generator->list (gdelete-neighbor-dups
>     		     (make-generator a a b c a a a d)))
>     => (a b c a d)

Done.

>   * gselect: Is there any guarantee regarding whether one generator
>     will be called after the other has been exhausted?  Perhaps it's
>     unimportant; I don't have a use case in mind.

Guarantee added.

>   * generator-unfold: An example would be very useful here to clarify
>     matters, I think (related to the very first item above).

See above.

Again, thanks for the detailed review.

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