"Attila Lendvai" <attila.lendvai@gmail.com> writes:
for a short moment i wanted to suggest to shadow CL:FIRST and friends in the alexandria package with unexported versions that work on generic sequences and let users :shadowing-import-from as/when they need them. that way i could forget FIRST*. but then i realized that it's kind of like a blasphemy to talk about this, so i only hypothetically mention this idea now, hoping that i won't be thrown with stones... :) so, could this survive without any vetos? there's already FIRST-ELT in sequences.lisp...
PJB got something like that: http://darcs.informatimago.com/darcs/public/lisp/common-lisp/generic-cl.lisp Making that a standalone library on CL.net might be a worthwhile undertaking. But something like that is out of scope of Alexandria, I think. -T.