Re: list*->array argument order Bradley Lucier 21 Feb 2022 21:44 UTC
On 2/20/22 9:31 PM, Arthur A. Gleckler wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 12:55 PM Bradley Lucier <xxxxxx@math.purdue.edu
> <mailto:xxxxxx@math.purdue.edu>> wrote:
>
> The first two arguments are required, but I'm beginning to think that
> the short required argument, the dimension, should come before the data
> itself, which can be quite large.
>
>
> [Editor's hat off.] That sounds smart to me. Most of the time, the
> data won't be literal, but sometimes it is, and I don't see any reason
> to choose the other order.
Thinking about it again, because a list/vector/list*/vector* is being
converted to an array, with some auxiliary information, maybe it is a
good idea to have an argument-list convention of
(define (list->array list domain-interval ...))
(define (list*->array list* dimension ...))
(define (vector->array vector domain-interval ...))
(define (vector*->array vector* dimension ...))
Brad