[racket-dev] Adding flvector to match

I think you should do 2': Change racket/match to recognize patterns
with #'flvector heads -- ie, use the binding for flvector from
`racket/flonum` to determine if something matches.

The use of symbolic names in match, rather than bindings, is a
leftover rather than something we should keep adding to.

Sam

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Neil Toronto <neil.toronto at gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be really handy for me right now to be able to match on flvectors,
> and I think it's useful enough for minimal Racket. I've already tried this
> option:
>
>  1. Export flvector as a match expander from racket/flonum
>
> but racket/match depends on racket/flonum somehow. So I looked through the
> match code and determined that this one would be pretty easy:
>
>  2. Change racket/match to recognize patterns with 'flvector head
>
> (The code is very clean; kudos to whoever last rewrote it. :D)
>
> I think #2 would at worst hijack someone's custom flvector match expander,
> but probably do the same thing or better (e.g. also handle ellipses). But in
> case it's worse than I think, I can always go with this:
>
>  3. Export flvector as a match expander from math/flonum
>
> Question for the match and syntax gurus: would doing #2 be safe enough, or
> should I do #3? Or have I got it backwards; i.e. is #2 actually safer than
> #3?
>
> Neil ⊥
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