[racket-dev] take, drop, split-at, etc -- and argument order, again

An hour ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> #lang racket2 ?

That is much later than I hoped.

(And when it comes, I certainly hope it won't be `racket2'.)


> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
>     It's no committed & pushed.  With the bad argument order.
>    
>     Just to show how bad it is, it's not just `findf' -- there's many
>     others, like `partition' which is very similar, yet it takes the
>     predicate first.
>    
>     I'd really like to fix the order of all of these things.  Maybe
>     someone has some idea how to do that?
> 
>     Also, the same holds for dealing with improper lists: I made the *f
>     functions deal with them in the same way that the non-*f functions do,
>     which in turn is a srfi-1 legacy.  I think that this is also a bad and
>     unnecessary idea, and it would be best to make them all require
>     (proper) lists.

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