Re: [Chicken-users] Bug in SRFI-13 lib?

[felix winkelmann]

On Feb 17, 2008 11:56 AM, Jim Ursetto <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> This is all made a little more confusing by the lack of a
> final question mark on the end of these predicates--which
> sometimes indicates a "boolean-plus" value is intentionally being
> returned; in other words, either #f or a useful true value.
> Such is the case with memq, memv, etc.  But the dropping of the ?
> was, as far as I can tell, done for aesthetic reasons only.
> Combine that with the historical baggage of the mismatch index
> and the behavior of the reference implementation, and you have
> a recipe for discombobulation.
>
> I hope this explanation made you feel a little better. ;)
>

Thanks for this (explanation). Would anybody mind if we
change string[=<>...] accordingly?


cheers,
felix