[racket-dev] else clauses: possible change to match?

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Fri May 3 17:29:52 EDT 2013

A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> 
> FWIW, this was the bug in redex that prompted me to send this
> message (it was there for some time since it wasn't a syntax error
> .... it was similar in spirit to the code I posted; things broke
> when #f was an argument)

[I think that it's good to have a much more relaxed policy about
breaking compatibility in cases like this: so far there was no real
code found that uses the feature, but there is one instance of code
that would get fixed by the change...]

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