[racket-dev] [plt] Push #21108: master branch updated

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 17 12:52:45 EDT 2010

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Casey Klein
<clklein at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM,  <robby at racket-lang.org> wrote:
>> robby has updated `master' from c6fc7137ee to ce211ac364.
>>  http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/c6fc7137ee..ce211ac364
>>
>> =====[ 1 Commits ]======================================================
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>> Directory summary:
>>  10.1% collects/redex/private/
>>  83.2% collects/redex/tests/bmps-macosx/
>>   6.6% collects/redex/tests/
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>> ~~~~~~~~~~
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>> ce211ac Robby Findler <robby at racket-lang.org> 2010-09-17 11:39
>> :
>> | adjusted metafunction application rendering so that ellipses do not
>> | get commas put in front of them
>> :
>
> FWIW, if I were typesetting this example by hand, I would have done it
> the old way
>
>   rdups[| x_1, x_2, ..., x_1, x_3, ... |]
>
> not the new way
>
>   rdups[| x_1, x_2 ..., x_1, x_3 ... |]
>
> but maybe I'm alone in that preference.

I had thought that for a while, but some examples I'm working with
today get really confusing when you do that and just seem ugly. The
ellipses really isn't a separate item in the argument list; it is an
operator on the thing that comes before and the lack of a paren
emphasizes this properly.

IMO.

Robby


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