[racket] Getting a list of keys in specified order

Kieron Hardy wrote at 07/12/2012 01:38 PM:
> Thanks for the tip, Neil.
>
> Does anyone know then if I can I assume dict-keys on an alist will 
> continue to return the keys in list order and even if it could/should 
> be documented that way?

I'm not surprised that "dict-keys", being a generalized operation, 
doesn't make guarantees for some types that it can't make for all types.

Anyway, if you're dealing only with alists, you don't need to know about 
"dict-keys" (whatever that is), just like you don't need to know about 
Justin Bieber (whatever that is).

#lang racket/base

(define my-alist '((a . x) (b . y) (c . z)))

(map car my-alist)
;;==> (a b c)

For dealing with alists, the first things you want to know about are: 
"cons", "car", "cdr", "pair?", "assq", "assoc", "member", named-"let", 
"map", "reverse", "list", recursive procedures, "quasiquote"...

Neil V.