[plt-dev] Re: promoting unstable libraries

From: Carl Eastlund (carl.eastlund at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 3 21:59:31 EST 2010

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:57 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Feb  3, Carl Eastlund wrote:
>> >> Are you -5ing the functionality, or the implementation?  It seems
>> >> like if you have a different implementation in mind, then wherever
>> >> they go, we can use that implementation.
>> >
>> > The implementation.  Like I said:
>> >
>> > * a `list-prefix?' function should be layered on top
>> >
>> > * way better if this is merged with remove-duplicates
>>
>> That doesn't seem like a reason against having them at all, though.
>> That seems like a reason to improve them, to me.
>
> The first is oversimplistic, the second has a different interface for
> no good reason.

Thank you, I find that argument a great deal more persuasive.

--Carl


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