[racket-dev] Internal definitions in `define'

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Dec 29 14:08:56 EST 2011

Does anyone know of a reason to not have an implicit `begin' in a
plain definition, translated into an implicit (let () ...) in racket?

When I see things like this:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8667403

I think that people expect the syntax of `define' to be uniform, so if
you can switch these:

  (define (foo x) (+ x 1))
  (define foo (+ 8 1))

then the expectation is for the same to work when there are multiple
expressions.

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