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Re: serial-map

Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow@mit.edu> writes:

> I notice that map-in-order from boot-9.scm has recently been replaced
> with serial-map in evalext.c. I've previously suggested to Olin
> Shivers that he add map-in-order to his list library SRFI, and he has
> done so in a recent draft. Should I suggest to him that he change the
> name, or should the guile version be renamed back? (I think
> compatability with list-lib is a good goal for non RnRS Guile list
> procedures).
> 
> I slightly prefer the name `map-in-order' because it is more precise;
> `serial-map' implies (to me at least) only that the mapping procedure
> is called in _some_ order (i.e. not in parallel) but not necessarily
> in the order of the list.

Ok,

I accept your argument.  What should we do about:

  serial-array-copy!
  serial-array-map!

then?

Can we rename them to:

  array-copy-in-order!
  array-map-in-order!

?

/mdj