[racket-dev] #true and #false

From: David Van Horn (dvanhorn at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 8 23:10:05 EDT 2010

On 10/8/10 9:12 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> This proposal originates with the need to fix a problem in the HtDP
> teaching languages. The HtDP teaching languages currently use `true'
> and `false' for true and false, and the HtDP languages are configured
> to print booleans as `true' and `false'. That doesn't work with quoted
> lists. For example,
>
>    '(true false)
>
> is a list of symbols, not a list of booleans.

What about '(empty)?  Seems like the same issue.

David


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