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

Just now, Jay McCarthy wrote:
> match-define is something else

Indeed it is -- which makes the whole thing even more confusing.  I
can't help imagining a newbie's reaction when they're told that

  Oh, here's your mistake -- you've used match-define where you should
  have used define/match.


IMO, this is bad enough to withdraw it if there's no good name for it.



> 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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