[alexandria-devel] Re: length=1

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

"Attila Lendvai" <attila.lendvai at gmail.com> writes:

> for a short moment i wanted to suggest to shadow CL:FIRST and friends
> in the alexandria package with unexported versions that work on
> generic sequences and let users :shadowing-import-from as/when they
> need them. that way i could forget FIRST*. but then i realized that
> it's kind of like a blasphemy to talk about this, so i only
> hypothetically mention this idea now, hoping that i won't be thrown
> with stones... :) so, could this survive without any vetos? there's
> already FIRST-ELT in sequences.lisp...

PJB got something like that:

  http://darcs.informatimago.com/darcs/public/lisp/common-lisp/generic-cl.lisp

Making that a standalone library on CL.net might be a worthwhile
undertaking. But something like that is out of scope of Alexandria, I
think.

  -T.