[racket-dev] API naming conventions (Push #25466)

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Oct 16 18:41:26 EDT 2012

Just now, John Clements wrote:
> 
> If this were about changing the name of match-define to
> define/match, I'd have no objection, but the problem is that we now
> have two forms with names that are identical, modulo a stylistic
> choice.

It's not -- they have two different meanings.


> It's as though we had a let/values and a values-let; what kind of
> difference in meaning would a user expect to see between these two?

Exactly.  (I'll reply more to Matthias's question.)

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