| I discovered this when I was reading CLtL1. On page 247
| Steele writes
|
|     You may depend on the order in which arguments are given
|     to /testfn/; this permits the use of non-commutative
|     test functions in a predictable manner....
|
| I thought "That is cool!". It means that I can generate a
| short list of prime numbers in `Sieve of Eratosthenes' style
| with

Remember, CLtL1 is not the ANS so don't rely on anything published therein
as being related to the official ANSI spec. I don't see anything in the spec
for
remove-duplicates that requires this ordering. Did I miss something?

Paul


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