[racket] Super basic question about strings

9 minutes ago, namekuseijin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > (define (alist->string.v5 alist)
> >  (string-join (map (lambda (x) (string-append (symbol->string (car x)) "=" (number->string (cdr x)))) alist) " "))
> 
> don't you guys think it would be slightly more readable if
> string-join accepted the glue string as first argument?  Lists
> always come last in list-consuming functions like fold or map,
> precisely because they can grow large...

It's an inheritance from `srfi/1'.  (And might trail back to things
like ELisp's `mapconcat'.)

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