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help text fro sorted? predicate is wrong/misleading.

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From: Marijn <hkBst <at> gentoo.org>
To: 11262 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ludo <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#11262: help text fro sorted? predicate is wrong/misleading.
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:31:09 +0200

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On 22-04-12 14:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Alexei,
> 
> Alexei Matveev <alexei.matveev <at> gmail.com> skribis:
> 
>>>> 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.
> 
> Oops, indeed.
> 
> Pushed in commit fd07759b7d4c9d631090b04855ab81b6a2109e9e.
> 
> Thanks for the report, patch, and review!

So it seems the rewording was about whether a list like '(2 2) is
sorted or not. IIUC the rewording makes it a sorted list according to
<, because (not (< 2 2)) is #f.

Is that really what is wanted?

Marijn
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