[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Add (sort) and (vector-sort!) procedures

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Mon Oct 2 15:34:25 EDT 2006


"Jason Orendorff" <jason.orendorff at gmail.com> writes:

> For the sake of putting forth a realistic proposal, I suggest adopting
> (only) the non-stable functional list-sort and the non-stable
> four-parameter in-place vector-sort! from SRFI-32.

If any sorting is adopted, I call for making Schwartzian transform
available. People must not be advised to pass
   (lambda (x y) (< (car x) (car y)))
as the comparison. They should pass
   car <
as two separate arguments (or just car with < being the default).

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