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2 points by raymyers 6149 days ago | link | parent

Well interestingly enough, li ls and lst don't appear in the non-Scheme source of Arc, except for lst in the borrowed mergesort.

What about xs and ys, do we get the hounds too?



1 point by kennytilton 6149 days ago | link

Looks like my code when it's a three-liner and it really is a bit much to be coding (in my Algebra program):

  (loop for denominator in denominators...
You are right (guessing at the implicit): "list" is a terrible name for a variable unless someone really is writing a general purpose list manipulation function, but we do see "lst" quite a bit over on c.l.lisp.

btw, the real question is whether you see "list" as a variable name in the Scheme source.

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1 point by tel 6149 days ago | link

xs, ys, as, bs set off my Haskell alarm. They're pretty obvious and general, but something about pattern matching makes them unavoidable:

   interleve [] _ = []
   interleve _ [] = []
   interleve (x:xs) (y:ys) = x:y:(interleve xs ys)

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