[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Equivalence predicate version of memp

Carl Eastlund cce at ccs.neu.edu
Fri Sep 29 15:09:44 EDT 2006


On 9/29/06, John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> Good point, and it's certainly easy to get back the names "any" and
> "every" if you prefer them.  However, I think having "for-each" and
> "forall" in the same language is confusing (even if a hyphen is added to
> "forall").  At the risk of spawning another bikeshed thread, "some-of"
> and "all-of" would not be subject to either objection.

While I have no strong objection to any of these names, I wonder why
the names of these boolean-producing procedures do not end in '?' as
per the stated naming conventions.

-- 
Carl Eastlund



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