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

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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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