[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Requirement to detect circular lists

From: Blake Coverett <scheme>
Date: Thu Oct 5 23:25:49 2006

On 10/5/06, Felix <pfr6rs_at_pnkfx.org> wrote:
> How do the editors, developers and implementors feel about loosening
> the spec to allowing (but not _requiring_) implementations to throw
> an exception if the list arguments are not lists [of the same length]
> any point during the dynamic extent of an invocation?

+1 for 'not lists'. I'm of the camp who believe stopping at the
end of the shortest list is a desired behavior for mismatched lengths.
Received on Thu Oct 05 2006 - 23:25:41 UTC

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