[racket-dev] racket/match is broken

On 10/6/11 2:12 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> Sam is talking about building the ASTs *while* matching, which is what
> Jay was trying to do with uses of `app'.  I think that a teaching
> context is in particular one where such a thing doesn't fit -- it
> obscures the distinction between the side the sexpr goes into, and the
> side where an AST comes out.

Okay, I see the distinction, and I apologize for not having fully 
understood Jay's example. I agree that this obscurity is hazardous. I 
think, though, that I have always assumed left-to-right matching, though 
I may never have constructed anything that would break if it didn't 
happen. --PR