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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