[plt-scheme] Does anyone use `set!' and `get!' patterns?
I've never used them, and I use match a lot. Death to the get! and
set! patterns, I say!
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Sam TH <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Currently, "plt-match.ss" and scheme/match (in v4) provide `set!' and
> `get!' patterns, which bind mutators and accessors for the matched
> locations, respectively. While these look clever, they complicated the
> implementation of match, and don't seem to be used. In particular,
> I've searched the entire collections hierarchy, and they don't seem to
> be used at all. Given this, I'd like to remove the implementations.
> Does anyone else use them in their code, or have any reason that they
> would want to?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu