On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:50 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: > Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:26 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>> Alex Shinn <alexsh...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>> This analogy is meaningless, but for the record >>>> you should be using fold or reduce here. >>> >>> I don't think it is the task of a language to enforce arbitrary >>> aesthetic criteria. He "should be using"? >> >> This has nothing to do with style, but performance >> and scalability. "apply" will blow up in most implementations >> depending on the length of the list. > > Do you think that we should remove the passage > > `concatenate' is the same as `(apply append LIST-OF-LISTS)'. It > exists because some Scheme implementations have a limit on the > number of arguments a function takes, which the `apply' might > exceed. In Guile there is no such limit. > > from the manual in order not to seduce people into using Guile?
I think it should be removed because it's no longer true: scheme@(guile-user)> (apply + (iota 1000000)) standard input:1:0: In procedure #<procedure 102329220 at standard input:2:0 ()>: standard input:1:0: Throw to key `vm-error' with args `(vm-run "VM: Stack overflow" ())'. -- Alex
