Re: sorted?

Jeremy Korwin-Zmijowski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.guile.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> No problem---I'm too.
>>
>> Think about it this way:
>>
>> How would you sort this list of numbers: 7 1 3 8 2 1 4 ?
>>
>> It's 1 1 2 3 4 7 8, right? That is what we want (sort '(7 1 3 8 2 1 4)) to
>> output (+ the parentheses of course).
>>
>> Now, `sorted?' returns true if its input is what `sort' would have
>> produced as output, otherwise false.
>>
>> Don't confused by the "less" that you pass in as second argument to
> `sort'. That is something you are *required* to pass to sort for it to
> function as expected. It is something that `sort' uses.

This explanation does make sense to me and so made me realized I was not 
using `sorted?` as it is intended to. I will think about another strategy.

Thank you all for your time and words.

Jérémy
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