Final discussions Bradley Lucier (11 Apr 2022 22:49 UTC)
Re: Final discussions Alex Shinn (22 Apr 2022 08:55 UTC)
Re: Final discussions Bradley Lucier (05 May 2022 15:26 UTC)
Re: Final discussions Alex Shinn (05 May 2022 21:35 UTC)
Re: Final discussions Bradley Lucier (26 May 2022 18:52 UTC)
Re: Final discussions Alex Shinn (29 May 2022 20:59 UTC)

Re: Final discussions Bradley Lucier 26 May 2022 18:52 UTC

On 5/5/22 11:25 AM, Bradley Lucier wrote:
> On 4/22/22 4:55 AM, Alex Shinn wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 7:49 AM Bradley Lucier <xxxxxx@math.purdue.edu
>> <mailto:xxxxxx@math.purdue.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Dear Colleagues:
>>
>>     I can't think of anything to improve about this array SRFI, so
>> without
>>     further feedback I'm OK with finalizing it, but I'd like to mention
>>     previous comments that are, to my mind, as yet unresolved;
>>
>>     1.  A better name for array-elements-in-order?.
>>
>>
>> I prefer my earlier suggestions of either array-indices-in-order? or
>> array-contiguous-and-in-order?, but am open to other suggestions.
>
> The name that I think best fits the concept is
>
> array-elements-stored-contiguously-with-increasing-index?
>
> and I think that each of the three names above doesn't quite capture the
> precise concept, and I don't see anything to prefer one of the three
> over the others.
>

Maybe we should just pick a short name with little or no intrinsic
meaning, or a meaning just barely suggested by the name, like
array-packed?  It also has the advantage of being short.

Brad