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in Issues, Olin noted:
> 3.When do n-ary mapping functions (MAP, MAP!, FOR-EACH, PAIR-FOR-EACH,
> APPEND-MAP, APPEND-MAP!, FILTER-MAP, MAP-IN-ORDER) terminate?
> 1.When any list runs out?
> 2.When the first list runs out?
> 3.All lists must be of equal length?
> My preferences are in the order listed. R4RS says #3. Hence this spec
> requires #1. Any changes to this *must* happen by the end of the SRFI
> discussion period.
Dylan, which has a fairly general collections mechanism, also takes
approach #1. Generalizing lists, a collection in Dylan is regarded as a
mapping from keys to values. The keys for lists and vectors are integers
starting at zero. n-ary mapping functions do an intersection-join on the
keys of their arguments, and hence, for the list case, only operate on the
common keys, ie, along the shortest list.
-- Donovan Kolbly ( RScheme Development Group
( d.kolbly@xxxxxxxxxxx
( http://www.rscheme.org/~donovan/