[racket-dev] Deprecating collects

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 10 20:32:23 EDT 2012

At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:20:16 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:30:33 -0400 (EDT), Asumu Takikawa wrote:
> >> - defmacro in mzlib
> >
> > I'm skeptical that this one should be removed,. At a minimum, though,
> > it could be better explained/discouraged in the docs for the hack that
> > it is.
> 
> Why do you want to keep this?

Some will want `defmacro', maybe for porting old code. So, if we don't
provide `defmacro', then others will waste time re-creating it and/or
asking how to re-create it.


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