[plt-scheme] [redex] language keywords

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 3 18:53:36 EDT 2010

Oh, duh. There was no bug; I just made a mistake. I've updated the web
page and it will get sync'd up at some point in the next 6 or hours, I
believe. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

Robby

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Eric Tanter <etanter at dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
>> Is this 'where' clause something that was introduced somewhat recently?
>> I remember from my first redex examples that the way to introduce a new identifier for instance was with ,(term-let ...).
>
> Somewhat. As we gain experience (and your experience has been quite
> helpful in this regard), Redex evolves to become better. I think you
> already agreed this was better, no?
>
>> The same question goes for the definition of metafunctions. For instance, the definition of lambda-v on the web:
>> http://redex.plt-scheme.org/lam-v.html
>> for the subst metafunction, uses ,(term-let ...) to introduce (x_new ...)
>>
>> It seems the preferred way to do that now would be with a where clause, right?
>
> Right.
>
>> (I was surprised actually when seeing in the doc that term-let was low-level and not meant to use, while it was--and still is in some cases-- used in the simple introductory examples of plt redex)
>>
>
> This was me not updating the website. Thank you for pointing it out. I
> looked into updating it, but I found a bug in redex, so I'll leave it
> alone until that gets fixed.
>
> Robby
>


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