[plt-scheme] 2htdp/image questions

Jordan Johnson <jmj at fellowhuman.com> wrote:

> Why not (since it's already mostly written--right?) have a distinct  
> bitmap image type and bitmap library that provides the color-list  
> and alpha-color-list functionality of the old htdp/image lib?   
> (i.e., just rename the types of data in the old library to make it  
> obvious that they are distinct from the 2htdp-style images)

Because I have so many other exercises that use the kinds of things  
that are in 2htdp/image, and I don't want [my students] to have some  
functions that work on images and others that work on bitmaps.   
Especially since the current image type includes bitmaps as one  
variant.  In other words, if I copy and paste a picture from a web  
browser, I can use both bitmap functions and image functions on it,  
but if I call rotate or scale on it, suddenly the bitmap functions  
stop working.  Yecch.