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Matthew wouldn't ask for a patch if he wanted you to go thru the work and would reject the patch out of hand. If, however, the patch is "delete design completely, use this one instead", he and the rest of dev may reject it too. In between all shades of grey. -- Matthias





On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:

> A few minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> I stand by my recommendation from December:
>> 
>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/2012-December/011218.html
>> 
>> That is, I think this suggestion should be phrased as a patch.
>> 
>> As implied in my quote below, I tried something much like you're
>> describing, and I was unhappy with the resulting complications.
>> Maybe I implemented the idea wrong, and maybe you'll come with
>> something better --- all the more reason to phrase your suggestion
>> as a patch.
> 
> The question is whether such a patch is worth working on it or not.
> (And I'm assuming that you're suggesting that that such a patch is
> fine if it's possible to implement without me realizing on the way
> some reasons against it.)
> 
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