[racket-dev] [plt] Push #25466: master branch updated

match-define is something else

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Two days ago, stchang at racket-lang.org wrote:
>>  @deftogether[(
>> + at defform[(define/match (head args) match*-clause ...)]
>>  @defform[(match-lambda clause ...)]
>>  @defform[(match-lambda* clause ...)]
>>  @defform[(match-let ([pat expr] ...) body ...+)]
>
> I don't know if nobody paid any attention to this, but the above looks
> *really* ugly.  Please³ rename it to `match-define'.
>
> (Yes, it's true that this won't get recognized as a definition form
> using drr's usual regexp, but that's already true for the other match
> forms.)
>
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