[alexandria-devel] Re: length=1

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

"Nikodemus Siivola" <nikodemus at random-state.net> writes:

> On 2/22/08, Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  but to be specific about length=1:
>
> Hah, I had forgotten we already had SEQUENCE-OF-LENGTH-P :)
>
> In that case my only objection to length=1 is the name, which is...
> not ugly per se, but introduces a new naming convention. No, I don't
> have any good alternatives to offer straightaway. :/

Ditch SEQUENCE-OF-LENGTH-P alltogether. It's an absurdily long name for
something conceptually simple.

Just compare

  (sequence-of-length-p *foo* 1)

vs.

  (= (length *foo*) 1)

  -T.