[racket-dev] set operations

I think a function named set-choose should return just the chosen 
element. I would call the function below set-split, maybe.

Also, beware that for/first returns #f if the sequence is empty.

Ryan

On 11/11/2010 01:38 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> I think it is a good idea. Any objectors?
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> Jay
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> 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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