scheme/list requests [was: Re: [plt-dev] Re: more requests for typed-scheme]

On May  2, David Van Horn wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > I don't see any `make-list' on these pages.
> 
> No, but that's because there is no make-list, so it is written:
> 
> (let ((v e))
>    (build-list n (lambda (i) v)))

Yes, I know.  Yet these are still a minority where `build-list' does
fine -- specifically (a) none of these pieces of code had a separate
abstraction for `make-list' (b) the confusion re its utility and
immutability of lists is still there.

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