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

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 16 17:04:19 EDT 2012

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> John Clements wrote at 10/16/2012 04:51 PM:
>
>> Data point: I have no idea what define/match does, and the name by itself
>> does nothing to enlighten me.
>
> Another data point: If "define/match" expands to a "define" of a procedure
> that dispatches to a set of implementations based on a pattern-match of
> actual arguments... then the name is exactly what I'd expect for such a
> feature in a Scheme dialect.

That is, in fact, exactly what it does.

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