Re: [Chicken-users] sorted? bug?

[Christian Kellermann]

* Paul Colby <address@hidden> [111011 05:14]:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed what I feel is an incorrect behavior for the function sorted?
> My understanding is that (sorted? list test) should return #t if pairwise
> the elements of list (test e-n e-n+1) is true for all n. However, I get 
> the following I think rather odd behavior using 4.7.0 interpreted,
> 
>    (sorted? '(1 2 3) < )  is #t. good so far
>    (sorted? '(1 1 3) <)   is #t  but should be #f since (< 1 1) is #f 
>    (sorted? '(1 1 3) <=) is #f  but should be #t since (<= 1 1) is #t
> 
> Am I missing something? 

Please note that the semantics of the third parameter is less?,
i.e. the predicat should return #t only if element i-1 is less than
i.

The actual result is calculated as
(not (less? (list-ref list i) (list-ref list (- i 1)))).

for each element i, where i is 1 <= i <= m, for a list or vector
if size m.

so for your list '(1_a 1_b 3) it asks is 1_b less than 1_a and the
answer is #t so your statement is false altogether.

(The i starts at 1 but list-ref is 0-based).

Does that make sense?

Cheers,

Christian

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