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Re: Partial sorting John Cowan 10 Dec 2015 17:02 UTC

Pierpaolo Bernardi scripsit:

> > I would only accept this if someone sent in a patch (which would have to
> > be pretty comprehensive) to the implementation.
>
> I hoped a motivation would be necessary too.

To be sure.  I should have written "I would only consider accepting this".

On reflection, however, I think that stride support belongs with
arrays, and should be done as part of that (future) SRFI.

> I can't see any use of a stride parameter which isn't really a bad
> practice, which needs not to be encouraged by providing support to it.

Please explain.

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