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

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 12 09:28:57 EDT 2010

At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:38:58 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:15:09 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > > I'd love to see an implicit `#%begin', which could have the above
> > > apply in more places automatically.  (It was one of the feature
> > > requests I asked for in the summer meeting.)
> > 
> > Recall that no one solved the technical problem with where to pull
> > the lexical context for the implicit `#%begin' or `#%body':
> > 
> >   http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/2010-July/003624.html
> 
> I remember being confused with how that problem would look like, but I
> don't think that I've seen an example where this would be problematic.
> (I think that we talked about it, but I can't remember any concrete
> details...)

Can you say more about how the `squawk' example in the referenced post
doesn't illustrate the problem?




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