[racket] Interesting article

Follow-up with a few more details... I will add:

rename to hash-keys/values
dict functions for the hash functions I added
vector-set*!
sequence-cons, sequence-empty, sequence-filter, etc
for/sequence

Also, I thought of a better way than prop:procedure to get containers
to implicitly ref... we could change apply and #%app. I don't think it
would be slower because the code would already be on the slow 'error'
path, but I don't have a strong opinion on if it is a good idea, so I
don't plan on trying it out until further discussion.

Jay

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> - The for... forms remind me too much of do.  There just don't seem to
>>> be primitives with the simplicity of map/filter/fold for sequences.
>>> Perhaps I'm missing them.
>>
>> Personally, I find the `for' macros more concise, except when there's
>> already a function that I would pass to `map' etc.   Compare:
>>
>> (for/list ([x e]) (f x))
>> (map (lambda (x) (f x)) e)
>>
>> I think the bigger problem from a datatype-genericity point of view is
>> that sequences don't have enough operations (sequence-ref,
>> sequence-set, etc).
>
> I am in the middle of adding many more sequence functions to
> correspond to list functions.
>
> Jay
>
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