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Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (09 Nov 2015 16:35 UTC)
Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). John Cowan (09 Nov 2015 17:37 UTC)
Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (09 Nov 2015 22:09 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (10 Nov 2015 15:05 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 15:14 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (10 Nov 2015 16:03 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 16:57 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Nov 2015 20:40 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (10 Nov 2015 21:16 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). John Cowan (11 Nov 2015 05:51 UTC)
Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). Sudarshan S Chawathe (10 Nov 2015 21:17 UTC)

Re: Partial orders. Re: Comments on SRFI 128 Draft 5 (2015-11-08). John Cowan 11 Nov 2015 05:51 UTC

Sudarshan S Chawathe scripsit:

> This answers that question.  It is probably a reasonable design choice,
> and certainly the prerogative of the SRFI author.  However, it would be
> very helpful if the SRFI were very explicit in this regard.

I have strengthened the wording in the definition section
and other places in the draft.

> I will mention also that it may be useful to consider comparators that
> reflect underlying partial (not total) orders.  A textbook use case
> would be using a sorting library (that uses comparators) to sort plane
> tickets that are only partially ordered by preference: x is better than
> y if x is both a cheaper and a shorter flight than y.

Fair enough, but I think it's an unreasonable burden on implementers to
force them to make the procedures specified in the SRFI to work
correctly if there is only a partial order.

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