[plt-scheme] v4 questions

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 31 09:52:15 EDT 2008

At Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:27:17 -0400, Doug Orleans wrote:
> Mark Engelberg writes:
>  > What about integration with the pattern matching system?  What
>  > about integration with sequence?  What about integration with the
>  > reader?  There end up being a lot of pieces that are probably best
>  > done in a definitive way by the people who control all the other
>  > related pieces, if you really want streams to have "first-class"
>  > status.  My own opinion is that streams are important enough to
>  > warrant this kind of attention.
> 
> What I would like better (or in addition) is for PLT Scheme to have
> enough extensibility that a third-party streams package could have
> "first-class" status.  I suspect the reader does have this, and I'm
> not sure about the pattern matching system, but sequence doesn't quite
> yet.

Yes, I should have expose the sequence property so that you can turn
your own datatypes into sequences. I'll do that.

Matthew



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