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[Bug-mit-scheme] lset-xor definition is wrong.
From: |
Gerald Jay Sussman |
Subject: |
[Bug-mit-scheme] lset-xor definition is wrong. |
Date: |
Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:03:19 -0500 |
;;; In the src/runtime file srfi-1.scm the code is
(define (lset-xor = . lists)
(reduce (lambda (b a) ; Compute A xor B:
;; Note that this code relies on the constant-time
;; short-cuts provided by LSET-DIFF+INTERSECTION,
;; LSET-DIFFERENCE & APPEND to provide constant-time short
;; cuts for the cases A = (), B = (), and A eq? B. It takes
;; a careful case analysis to see it, but it's carefully
;; built in.
;; Compute a-b and a^b, then compute b-(a^b) and
;; cons it onto the front of a-b.
(receive (a-b a-int-b) (lset-diff+intersection = a b)
(cond ((null? a-b) (lset-difference b a =))
((null? a-int-b) (append b a))
(else (fold (lambda (xb ans)
(if (member xb a-int-b =) ans (cons xb ans)))
a-b
b)))))
'() lists))
;;; It should be
(define (lset-xor = . lists)
(reduce (lambda (b a) ; Compute A xor B:
;; Note that this code relies on the constant-time
;; short-cuts provided by LSET-DIFF+INTERSECTION,
;; LSET-DIFFERENCE & APPEND to provide constant-time short
;; cuts for the cases A = (), B = (), and A eq? B. It takes
;; a careful case analysis to see it, but it's carefully
;; built in.
;; Compute a-b and a^b, then compute b-(a^b) and
;; cons it onto the front of a-b.
(receive (a-b a-int-b) (lset-diff+intersection = a b)
(cond ((null? a-b) (lset-difference = b a))
((null? a-int-b) (append b a))
(else (fold (lambda (xb ans)
(if (member xb a-int-b =) ans (cons xb ans)))
a-b
b)))))
'() lists))
;;; the difference is (lset-difference = b a) --- the predicate is in the wrong
position.
;;; An example the old thing gets wrong is (lset-xor eq? '(foo bar) '(foo bar))
- [Bug-mit-scheme] lset-xor definition is wrong.,
Gerald Jay Sussman <=