Re: How to split a string (or arbitrary sequence) at each occurrence of a value.

Subject: Re: How to split a string (or arbitrary sequence) at each occurrence of  a value.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 11:40:35 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3211962033165365@naggum.net>

* Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com>
| I think I might have been the one to call it split-sequence.

  Yes.  Thank you for the correction and clarification.

| When the Christophe Rhodes "split-sequence/partition" thread started back
| in June/July, I wasn't paying very much attention and so I didn't
| participate.

  It looked to me like nobody really liked "partition" and the consensus
  was clearly on "split-sequence".  The name "partition" was just handed to
  us as something to accept despite the strong opposition.  However, I have
  not found the discussion behind this comment in "partition.lisp":

;;; * naming the function PARTITION rather than SPLIT.

  I wonder how this change was chosen.  Where can I find the discussion?

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