[plt-dev] some Racket proposals & implementation

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 3 20:40:09 EDT 2010

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Sat, 3 Apr 2010 18:30:57 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>> Does it make sense to give this revision to define-struct a different
>> name and keep the same old define-struct around from scheme/base?
>
> Lots of other forms and procedures have `struct' in the name, so if we
> just change `struct' to something else, we'd either have a mismatch or
> have many other changes.
>
> Or did you have a different kind of change in mind?

I think I must be missing something. I have understood the
define-struct changes to be ones that would be compatible with the
original define-struct, but to have more features & a better syntax.
Is that not right?

Robby


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