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

On Oct 16, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>>>> A few minutes ago, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
>>> 
>>> Unfortunately, we have only one thing we can vary here -- the name.
>>> So while I'd be happy to hear better names for `define/match`, it
>>> would be wrong to call it `match-define`, and it's a valuable form
>>> and I plan to keep it.
>> 
>> Yes, the name is what should vary here, I had nothing to say about
>> what it does.  Please¹⁷ change it.  Even a `match-define*' would be
>> better than `define/match'.
> 
> `match-define*` would be much worse -- it isn't a variant on
> `match-define`, nor does it resemble any of the other `match-X` forms.

Data point: I have no idea what define/match does, and the name by itself does nothing to enlighten me. 

John

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