Antonio Leitao  <aml@gia.ist.utl.pt> wrote:
+---------------
| Anyway, I was concerned about other thing.  My problem is that Common
| Lisp makes a clear point about not using apply when the list of
| arguments is bigger than call-arguments-limit.  Scheme doesn't make
| such point (to my knowledge).  How should we decide between an apply
| and a fold (in equivalent situations)?
+---------------

It's not in the standard, so I'd say you have to look in whatever
"implemention limits/restrictions", if any, are mentioned in the
doc files for the particular implementation you're using. MzScheme,
for example, doesn't mention any hard limitation, and in fact seems
quite handily to handle at least a million args in an "apply":

	> (apply + (vector->list (make-vector 1000000 1.25)))
	1250000.0
	> 

Ditto for SCM:

	> (apply + (vector->list (make-vector 1000000 1.25)))
	1.25e6
	> 


-Rob

p.s. Elk handled a 100K-arg trial, but the above 1M-args blew up after
the heap had grown to over 140 MB (dunno why)...

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