Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> This analogy is meaningless, but for the record
>>> you should be using fold or reduce here.
>>
>> I don't think it is the task of a language to enforce arbitrary
>> aesthetic criteria. He "should be using"?
>
> This has nothing to do with style, but performance
> and scalability. "apply" will blow up in most implementations
> depending on the length of the list.
Do you think that we should remove the passage
`concatenate' is the same as `(apply append LIST-OF-LISTS)'. It
exists because some Scheme implementations have a limit on the
number of arguments a function takes, which the `apply' might
exceed. In Guile there is no such limit.
from the manual in order not to seduce people into using Guile?
Why should be try to educate people into using a programming style that
delivers suboptimal results with Guile?
Where is the point into keeping Guile in every regard at least as bad as
its worst competitor?
--
David Kastrup
