[racket-dev] `cond' / `when' / `unless' / etc bodies

I too am in favor of when, unless, and cond being definition contexts.

But I don't understand what this fragment is supposed to illustrate.
If the body of a 'when' were a definition context, we'd get this being
the same as something like this, which seems to work exactly as it
should:

Welcome to Racket v5.0.1.8.
> (define (foo x)
    (when (even? x) (let () (define x (add1 x)) (printf "increment\n")))
    x)
> (foo 2)
add1: expects argument of type <number>; given #<undefined>

 === context ===
stdin::1: foo
/home/robby/git/gr2/collects/racket/private/misc.rkt:74:7
>

Maybe you're saying that people would be confused by that error?
Woudln't that already happen with

(define (foo x) (define x (add1 x)) x)

?


Robby

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> I like mixing definitions and expressions -- maybe the bodies of
> `cond' etc should also allow it?
>
> The only downside I see is the possible confusion in somthing like
>
>  (define (foo x)
>    (when (even? x) (define x (add1 x)) (printf "increment\n"))
>    x)
>  ;; why isn't this working?
>
> but that seems like a minor point (without that `printf' you'd still
> get a syntax error; and the same confusion can already happen with
> `let' etc).
>
> --
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