[racket-dev] set operations

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 15:38:10 EST 2010

I think it is a good idea. Any objectors?

Jay

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, David Van Horn <dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> The set library is missing a convenient way of selecting an element from a
> set, making it hard to write recursive functions matching the inductive
> structure of a set.
>
> Could you add this function, or something like it?
>
> (define (set-choose s)
>  (let ((x (for/first ([x (in-set s)])
>             x)))
>    (values x (set-remove s x))))
>
> David
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