[racket-dev] for loops with interleaved escape continuations

On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote:

> Loop syntax and sugar is fine.  And having "#:continue" and "#:break" keywords at the top of the form is sufficient warning of surprises ahead, IMHO.
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> I do have a minor ongoing concern that people coming from other languages lately latch onto the "for" family of forms from the start, don't get enough exposure to named-"let", and/or mutually/self-recursive procedures, and then end up shoehorning problems into the "for" forms (with flag variables and redundant checks and such).  "break" and "continue" can be good shoehorns.
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> I still half-seriously like the idea of having unlockable language feature achievements, like unlockable equipment in video games.  I might play with that idea soon.

Cute idea. It generalizes the teaching languages, which at some point we wanted to explore, too. We dubbed this HLI as in Human-Language Interface. -- Matthias