Re: cl

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Justin Sheehy <justin@linus.mitre.org> writes:

> What's wrong with the current mapc syntax?  Is there something that
> you would like other than to have the parameter order reversed?

No, but I think that's a good reason.  Virtually all the Lisp "control 
structures" look like

(special-form variables-or-list-or-something
  (do-all-the-work-down-here))

Now, `mapcar' isn't a special form, but even so, I always forget whether 
the predicate is the first or second parameter, due in part to `sort'
working the opposite way.

(mapcar FUNCTION LIST)

vs.

(sort LIST PREDICATE)

(Heh.  I actually wrote the `sort' form with the parameters in the
wrong order, but then I tapped `C-h f', as I always do when I write
`sort' or `mapcar', and it told me I was wrong, as usual.  :-)

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