[racket] What about an Racket Artifacts thread?

(Minor quibble: these variables aren't dynamical scope but dynamically extent. That is, you are setting up a temporary assignment not a scope.) 

I don't think Neil is questioning the need for sharing. I think he's arguing that we should organize the huge wealth of sharing that already exists. 

I will say that I understand both perspectives, and I haven't made up my mind. Well I have but following PLT policy I shouldn't publicly state it because I am not willing to volunteer :-). So here it goes: 

 I think we should have a wiki that is supervised by a (strict, human) editor 
 The editor will have to figure out how people can easily find the relevant 
 information among thousands of hints. 



On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Galler wrote:

> Neil,
> 
> Let me respond to your argument with a specific question.
> 
> Below is some code that sets up fluid-like dynamic variable bindings using Jay's
> web-cells. 
> 
> I haven't put this code up on GitHub (or elsewhere)
> 
> (define/contract (make-dyno-bindings ids)
>  (-> (listof symbol?) (listof (cons/c symbol? web-cell?)))
>  (map (λ (id) (cons id (make-web-cell null))) ids))
> 
> (with-continuation-mark 'globals (make-dyno-bindings bindings)
>  ((lambda () .....
> 
> Variables are scoped both dynamically and by Jay's send/suspend primitive. 
> 
> Effectively, this results in per-client, dynamically scoped variables.
> 
> Perhaps this is a super-dumb idea, but, if so, its a super-dumb idea that could
> only be implemented in Racket.
> 
> Where does the code go to get users looking at (and hopefully talking) about the
> super-dumb idea?  
> 
> As I've written to Robby, I don't think the problem is too many people
> implementing bad Scheme using Racket. I think the problem is not enough people
> implementing the post-Flatt, Yu, Findler and Felleisen et. al language.
> 
> R./
> Zack
> 
> 
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