Re: How about allowing ideque-delete-duplicates to take comparator?
John Cowan 11 Apr 2016 22:55 UTC
Shiro Kawai scripsit:
> If, not only a equality predicate but also a comparator
> is allowed as the optional argument of ideque-delete-duplicates,
> it can construct efficient map internally if the passed comparator has
> ordering predicate and/or hash function.
On reflection, I think that delete-duplicates is really not that useful.
Most of the time we want delete-neighbor-duplicates (part of the sorting
SRFI). So I'm going to remove it from the present SRFI again.
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