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Re: string-join ?
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> Lo, on Tuesday, January 8, Shriram Krishnamurthi did write:
>
> > Take a look at Olin Shivers's excellent SRFI on this. I imagine that
> > all of that code ports directly with just a MODULE wrapper. That's
> > what I would use, to get something designed well and to avoid
> > reinventing even so much as a spoke.
>
> Second the motion.
>
> I've used scsh's implemetation of this SRFI a couple of times. The
> interface is a great deal more general than that provided by Perl's
> split and join (as you might expect), so it can be a little tricky to
> figure out how to implement split and join, but it's very well designed,
> and thoroughly documented as well.
>
> (Would that some of my co-workers could write even half as well as
> Shivers!)
Well, yes, some academics could learn from him, too. -- Matthias