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I would like to see the reference implementation to be improved for efficiency.
Yes, I know that efficiency is not a requirement for SRFI reference
implementions. But many Scheme implementors just copy the reference
implementation without modifications in order to save time - which is
understandable but bad for many users.
I found only one improvement - but others might be more clever - last 2 lines:
(lambda (l alist)
(display (apply string-append (reverse l))))
Should not we avoid constructing the result as a string and write something like
this:
(lambda (l alist)
(let iter ((l2 l))
(cond ((pair? l2)
(iter (cdr l2))
(display (car l2))))))
Greetings
Sven
P.S.
Thanks Ray Dillinger and Al Petrofsky for this draft SRFI!