[racket-dev] Deprecating collects

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 10 20:41:34 EDT 2012

Right, of course you're right.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 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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