50 minutes ago, Carl Eastlund wrote:
> 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?
Because without that it could be arbitrarily and prohibitively more
expensive.
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