Re: Fundamental design flaws
scgmille@xxxxxx 30 Oct 2003 19:35 UTC
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:48:34AM -0800, bear wrote:
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> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 xxxxxx@freenetproject.org wrote:
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> >I'd like to know what beyond lacking collection specific shortcut
> >functions is inefficient in the current SRFI.
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> You're joking, right? Without the "shortcut functions" as you call them
> being more efficient, there is no reason for most of these collections to
> exist at all.
But they cannot be defined if they don't apply to the general class of
collections. They need to be defined for those concrete classes or a
more specific general one (like ordered tree).
Scott