[racket-dev] flatten-begin

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 21 19:45:39 EDT 2014

Yes, I agree. I don't have a good suggestion for the name, tho. Sorry.

Robby

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 2014-07-19 23:12:51 -0400, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>> This sounds like a nice solution and it would be fine for my use-case
>> too. Anyone have any reasons against? (otherwise I can make the change)
>
> I just realized that `flatten-begin` actually doesn't care if the form
> starts with a `begin`. In other words, the following evalutes like this:
>
>   (flatten-begin #'(a 1 2)) => (list #'2 #'3)
>
> In which case the behavior of #:all? becomes a bit weird since it would
> care about the head being a `begin` (otherwise it would collapse too
> manay things).
>
> Maybe the recursive flattener should be a different function after all?
>
> Cheers,
> Asumu

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