GNU bug report logs - #11262
help text fro sorted? predicate is wrong/misleading.

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Alexei Matveev <alexei.matveev <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 11262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alexei Matveev <alexei.matveev <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Ian Hulin <ian <at> hulin.org.uk>, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine <at> gmail.com>,
	11262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11262: help text fro sorted? predicate is wrong/misleading.
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:53:10 +0200

>> How about this:
>>
>> Return @code{#t} iff @var{items} is a list or vector such that, for
>> each element @var{x} and the next element @var{y} of @var{items},
>> @code{(@var{less} @var{x} @var{y})} returns @code{#f}.
>>
>> This avoids use of ‘m’, which would need to be defined, and makes
>> it clear what “comparing element i to the preceeding element”
>> means.

Yes, "m" should not be mentioned. But I think you got it backwards again:

Return @code{#t} iff @var{items} is a list or vector such that, for
each element @var{x} and the next element @var{y} of @var{items},
@code{(@var{less} @var{y} @var{x})} returns @code{#f}.

Note the order of x and y in (less? y x) in the last line.

Alexei
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