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Re: [Chicken-users] bit-set? seems to be buggy


From: Peter Bex
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] bit-set? seems to be buggy
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 12:14:07 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 12:12:57PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> 2012/1/6 Peter Bex <address@hidden>:
> >
> > Chicken's bit-set? is not from SRFI-60.  It has a swapped argument order.
> > See the manual:
> > http://api.call-cc.org/doc/library/bit-set%3F
> >
> > (by the way, it would be nice if its author could put the docs in a wiki
> >  page so that api.call-cc.org can pick up on it)
> 
> It is probably easer to do it just like the rest of the Scheme world does it.

Agreed. However, it's too late now; changing this procedure's signature
while maintaining backwards-compatibility is impossible.

Cheers,
Peter
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