[racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Fri Jul 30 08:20:07 EDT 2010

On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:47 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> IMO, this thing is missing the point (the usual "parens, ewww!" one),
>> as long as it ignores infix.
> 
> Seems to me that this point directly contradicts one of Shriram's
> design goals, namely showing that + is no more special than append or
> one of your own functions.

That may be true, but it doesn't counter Eli's point, which I think is entirely valid.  I had precisely the same reaction when I saw that code.

John 

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