Shorthand procedures? scgmille@xxxxxx (28 Jul 2003 15:29 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? Jim White (28 Jul 2003 18:11 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? scgmille@xxxxxx (28 Jul 2003 19:37 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? Jim White (28 Jul 2003 18:22 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? scgmille@xxxxxx (28 Jul 2003 18:55 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? Jim White (29 Jul 2003 00:52 UTC)
Re: Shorthand procedures? scgmille@xxxxxx (29 Jul 2003 03:11 UTC)

Re: Shorthand procedures? Jim White 28 Jul 2003 18:12 UTC

xxxxxx@freenetproject.org wrote:
> First, if we are to use collection-fold-keys-increasing, it makes sense
> that collection-fold-left is renamed to collection-fold-increasing as
> well.
>
> Second, Is there any objection to adding the procedures collection-fold
> and collection-fold-keys as synonyms for collection-fold-increasing and
> collection-fold-keys-increasing respectively?

I'm skeptical of both changes.  The fold concept is spatial (thus
addressing unordered collections) and increasing/decreasing is
explicitly ordered.

And what about ordered vs unordered key enumeration?  Are you really
saying ordered key enumeration is the only option?

Jim
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