[r6rs-discuss] Comparison procedures' number of arguments

Andre van Tonder andre at het.brown.edu
Sun Oct 19 13:02:41 EDT 2008


On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Jon Wilson wrote:

> Is it less silly if, for example, whether a sequence is increasing could
> be changed from #f to #t by removing the last element?

Yes, it is definitely less silly, since this is what R6RS already allows, e.g.,

   (< 1 2 3 2)  ==> #f
   (< 1 2 3)    ==> #t

No-one would expect the property "NOT <" to be conserved under truncation of
sequences.

Andre



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