[racket-dev] `compatibility' (was: [plt] Push #25038: master branch updated)

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 31 12:26:56 EDT 2012

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> To start afresh, here are two suggestions, which are mutually
> exclusive. The first is my preference:
>
>  1. Revert the addition of `compatibility/package' and
>     `compatibility/mpair', including the documentation changes (but
>     maybe add back some text to discourage misuse of these libraries).

I definitely think we should keep `mpair` as a more-than-compatibility
library.  It's useful in real data structures, and it's nice not to
have to roll your own mutable linked list when it's the right choice.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu

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