[racket] match in Advanced Student?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 17 21:39:47 EDT 2011

Give me an awl and I'll get everything right out in the open. NO problem!

Robby

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
> This is indeed a very confusing thread because we're talking about
> requiring match but also requiring require, and while most "it"s refer
> to a "require", some are to the former kind and some to the latter
> kind.
>
> Of course, what I'm trying to say is completely clear in my head, so
> if you didn't understand it, it must be your fault. (-:
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> The "it" in your second sentence does not refer to "match", I take it?
>> (That took me a _long_ time to figure out :).
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi <sk at cs.brown.edu> wrote:
>>> As I said, I don't know how match is implemented.  It doesn't work for
>>> constructs like *require* which have lots of sub-forms that are
>>> actually *implemented* as top-level forms.  So if you just import
>>> "require", all you get is "require" -- not all the sub-clauses.
>>>
>>
>



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