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Inconsistent keywords for sequence functions

To: common-lisp@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
Subject: Inconsistent keywords for sequence functions
From: DON%atc.bendix.com@RELAY.CS.NET
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 87 14:07 EDT

Why do most of the sequence functions have the :key keyword but
reduce doesn't?  Why isn't there a reduce-if and a reduce-if-not?
An example which came up recently is

(reduce #'+ box-contents :key #'weight)

which should return the sum of the weights of the objects in the box.

Don Mitchell	  		Don@atc.bendix.com
Bendix Aero. Tech. Ctr.		Don%atc.bendix.com@relay.cs.net
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