[racket-dev] racket/stream

Is the question: is stream-cons a macro or a function? If it is a
function, the answer has to be diverge. I think it being a macro is a
little weird, but it being a function and the answer not being 1 is
non-streamy.

Jay

2011/3/17 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>:
> Matthew wrote "Streams include lists and lazy lists as produced by `stream-cons'
>  (i.e., the usual one instead of the one currently exported by
>  `racket/stream')."
>
> so I think the answer is 1.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>>
>>> At Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:34:17 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>>> 1. I think we should stay away from 'stream' here.
>>>> If Racket had grown out of the Unix tradition, I'd
>>>> be fine with it. But we partially grew out the
>>>> functional community, and they use 'stream' for
>>>> a narrower concept.
>>>
>>> Unless I'm confused, the proposal is to use "stream" in the
>>> functional-programming sense, not in the Unix sense.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps the misunderstanding is on my side but that's easy to resolve.
>>
>> What does
>>
>>  (stream-first (stream-cons 1 (infinite-loop)))
>>
>> produce?
>>
>> -- Matthias
>>
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