[racket] match in Advanced Student?

This strategy certainly doesn't work with require, as I've reported
earlier, because you have to *know* and *enumerate* (and then
maintain) all the require sub-forms, which are their own macros.
Ditto for provide, and some other such constructs.  So you can't just
tell your students to require one thing and be done with it.  I don't
know whether match is done this way but in general this strategy
doesn't work for bringing in the constructs you want.

I think the student require form is also restricted to not let you be
able to do such things, but I may be remembering incorrectly.

Shriram

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> Could you just require match into bsl/isl?
>
> Robby
>
> On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>> On 8/17/11 10:30 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>>>
>>> My experience last year was that the restrictions on some of these
>>> sub-forms were arbitrary and not helpful. It also makes it harder for
>>> students because if they click on the "wrong" documentation, they
>>> don't understand why the thing that the docs say should work doesn't.
>>
>> Well, I certainly didn't. The Advanced Student documentation doesn't
>> really explain `match', so one has to go to the Guide or Reference anyway
>> (e.g. for quasipatterns). It takes some careful peering at the grammar of
>> Advanced Student to notice that ASL `match' is restricted, and to figure out
>> what is permissible.
>>
>> I would like to use `and', `or', and `?' patterns, at least. But to do so
>> I have to take the students into Advanced Student earlier than I want (just
>> after functional abstraction) and forbid them to use all the `!' functions
>> and I/O. However, if I'm only going to get a restricted version of `match'
>> by doing that, I might as well take them into #lang racket.
>>
>> Okay, maybe I won't go to that extreme yet. Let me see how far I can get
>> without full `match'. --PR
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