[racket-dev] Racket startup

From: Carl Eastlund (cce at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 28 10:11:54 EDT 2011

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> Eli Barzilay wrote at 06/28/2011 09:52 AM:
>>
>> This makes `MAIN' the Racket equivalent of Python's `__main__' thing.
>
> As for the name, if you could promise me that this name isn't a slippery
> slope to a proliferation of all-uppercase variable names...  (By convention,
> I use all-uppercase for pattern variables in macro transformers, and that is
> the best use of them I've found so far.)

The Racketish name would be #%main, wouldn't it?

--Carl



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