Marc,

Thanks for bringing this up.

On 2021-08-21 19:56 +0200, Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen wrote:
> SRFI 224 proposes the -alter version, which fixes the deficiencies of
> -search.  (Unrelated to this is the question whether -alter is a good name
> because the dictionary is not necessarily altered.)

I would certainly prefer to see -alter replace -search in SRFI 225.
Of course, -search has been implemented for many structures, while, as
yet, -alter is peculiar to SRFI 224.

> I haven't yet thought about what the -alter! version would be.

Isn't it rather obvious?  The only complicating factor that I can
think of at the moment is that invoking (ignore) must not mutate
the dictionary.

P.S. I agree that "alter" is a poor name.  It's the conventional name
for (something like) that form in most Haskell libraries, but I now
regret borrowing it for SRFI 224.  "search" is even worse, however.

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