[racket-dev] new release policy

Even if they don't actually :)

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> And, on the other side of the coin, I'm sure Jay is willing to
> entertain alternative proposals, esp. if they come with
> implementations.
>
> Robby
>
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for debugging me Noel.
>>
>> Since the API I added merely promises some sequence, there's nothing
>> preventing us from having it always return a future lazy stream that
>> can be viewed as a sequence if that ends up being faster. If someday
>> we have such nice lazy streams, then I predict we'll certainly want
>> similar functions and we'll have another request for making the
>> sequence api more like the lazy stream api.
>>
>> Jay
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I parse your comments like this:
>>>>
>>>> - We can't do these sequence functions fast.
>>>> - When we didn't provide them, people complained that they were missing.
>>>> - When we provide them slowly, people will complain that Racket is slow.
>>>> - It is worse to be slow than featureless.
>>>
>>> I think this is incorrect. I read:
>>>
>>> - When we provide APIs we lock ourselves into them
>>> - The proposed sequence API is slow and can't be sped up without
>>> significant effort (cf worldwide shortage of Matthew-Flatt-hours)
>>> - We shouldn't lock ourselves into a slow API without considering
>>> alternatives (cf performance of stream/lazy list abstraction)
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>> http://teammccarthy.org/jay
>>
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