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On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:06:29PM -0700, Bradd W. Szonye wrote: > As an extension of my idea to change collection-fold-left to > collection-fold, how about removing all of the -lefts? Rationale: > > 1. It's the naming convention in SRFI-1. > 2. The -left suffix doesn't make sense for "disordered" collections. > 3. It's less to type. Its less to type, but in this case its important, as it really is indicating directionality. If it was just get-value or such, it wouldn't convey the message that its retrieving a very specific value from the collection, the left most or least precedent. *-left provides a symmetry that the *-right functions can compare themselves against. Scott
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