You wrote: (define (regexp-match* . xs) (apply regexp-match** car xs))
I'm asking why it's not just this instead: (define (regexp-match* . xs) (map car (apply regexp-match** xs)) Why does regexp-match** need to do the mapping? Carl Eastlund On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > 50 minutes ago, Carl Eastlund wrote: >> Why does regexp-match** need to take this extra argument? Can't we >> just use map like normal? > > I can't parse this. > > >> If we want users to process each match in turn, possibly to allow >> early garbage collection, it sounds like an in-regexp-matches >> sequence would be better. > > There might be a place for `in-regexp-whatever's, but that's > irrelevant to adding the function I'm talking about. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
