[racket-dev] Internal definitions in `define'

I'm mildly against it, since it seems too easy to make parenthesis
errors that are very confusing (ie if you move a paren from the end of
one define to the end of a following define, the errors will get
strange).

Robby

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a reason to not have an implicit `begin' in a
> plain definition, translated into an implicit (let () ...) in racket?
>
> When I see things like this:
>
>  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8667403
>
> I think that people expect the syntax of `define' to be uniform, so if
> you can switch these:
>
>  (define (foo x) (+ x 1))
>  (define foo (+ 8 1))
>
> then the expectation is for the same to work when there are multiple
> expressions.
>
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