On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, John Cowan wrote: > The fact there's no dispute about the meaning of more than one argument, > whereas the interpretations of zero and one arguments are all over the > lot, suggests that the restriction is anything but arbitrary.
They may be all over the lot, but I do not believe they are equally natural. There seems to be only one natural interpretation. > The true > underlying domain, I think, is not numbers but ordering itself (there > is no reason why these functions could not be polymorphic, as they are in > many other languages), and in a domain where there exist (timelessly) > only one item, or zero items, ordering simply doesn't apply. Are you saying you cannot sort an empty or one-item sequence? I have directories with zero or one entry on my computer, and I can order them fine using various criteria without my OS complaining, and that's Windows! ;-) Andre _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
