[racket-dev] Caching rendered icons

Yesterday, Neil Toronto wrote:
> 
> Here's an example that bakes a list of stickman animation frames into a 
> compiled module:
> 
> (begin-for-syntax
>    (require images/icons/stickman)
>    (define stickman-height 18)
>    (define num-running-frames 12))
> 
> (define running-frames
>    (compiled-bitmap-list
>     (for/list ([t  (in-range 0 1 (/ 1 num-running-frames))])
>       (running-stickman-icon t run-icon-color "white" run-icon-color
>                              stickman-height))))
> 
> [...]
> 
> There are very few restrictions on the arguments now. They just have to 
> be valid in the transformer phase.

This sounds like something that would lead to all kinds of amusing
confusions...

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