Re: CL package serious deficiencies

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> I much prefer a leaner approach where instead of (delete-if #'foo :key #'bar)
> you have to write (delete-if (lambda (x) (foo (bar x)))).
> As for :start :end :from-end and :count, I've never even seen them used
> with delete-if.
>
> The :key in `sort*' makes sense.  Not in `delete-if'.

I agree.  I suspect the CL standard adds all these keywords to all the
sequence functions mostly for consistency.

:key is quite nice for `assoc' and `member', though.

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