Re: [Chicken-users] Question regarding "length"

[Alejandro Forero Cuervo]

> What is the list length of (1 . 2) anyway? Only 1 makes sense.

Hmm, I think throwing an error, —just like (length 'foo) does—, would
make more sense than returning 1 for (length '(1 . 2)).

Same goes for a circular list: throwing an error would make more sense
than failing to return, the small overhead required to detect circular
lists considered.

Alejo.
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