[racket] hack: implicit function arguments

From: Todd O'Bryan (toddobryan at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 14 13:00:23 EDT 2010

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 14, 2010, at 1:01 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>
>> Partly inspired by scala; sure to make your blood boil if you love hygiene.
>
> This just lowered my opinion of Scala a lot. I hacked enough TeX (including quasi-higher order) in the 80s to know that parameters shouldn't be numbered, neither explicitly nor implicitly :-)
>

Scala only uses this _1, _2 style to get members out of tuples, I
think. I can't find it being used to identify parameters.

Todd


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