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### 17.1 Sequence Concepts

A sequence is an ordered collection of elements, implemented as either a vector or a list.

Sequences can be created by the function make-sequence, as well as other functions that create objects of types that are subtypes of sequence (e.g., list, make-list, mapcar, and vector).

A sequence function is a function defined by this specification or added as an extension by the implementation that operates on one or more sequences. Whenever a sequence function must construct and return a new vector, it always returns a simple vector. Similarly, any strings constructed will be simple strings.

      concatenate        length              remove
      copy-seq           map                 remove-duplicates
      count              map-into            remove-if
      count-if           merge               remove-if-not
      count-if-not       mismatch            replace
      delete             notany              reverse
      delete-duplicates  notevery            search
      delete-if          nreverse            some
      delete-if-not      nsubstitute         sort
      elt                nsubstitute-if      stable-sort
      every              nsubstitute-if-not  subseq
      fill               position            substitute
      find               position-if         substitute-if
      find-if            position-if-not     substitute-if-not
      find-if-not        reduce

            Figure 17–1: Standardized Sequence Functions