[racket-dev] racket/stream

I don't see how you go from this sentence to your conclusion, 
so I will wait for Matthew's response. -- Matthias


On Mar 17, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> 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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