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

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 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.

I think both names are in keeping with the appropriate conventions --
`match-define` is a variant of `define` but with patterns in the
binding positions, just like `match-let` and `match-lambda` etc.  I
don't think this is any different from `regexp-match` vs
`regexp-match*`, for example.

-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu