[racket] Thoughts on Overeasy

From: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (samth at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 29 07:43:08 EDT 2011

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm certainly happy to have Racket extended with before/after/around
>> forms that are conveniences for dynamic-wind. Us humble test package
>> authors aren't really in a position to do this, however.
>
> Yeah, that's a valid point.  If it's the *only* one for adding a
> before/after to a testing facility, then the only problem I have with
> it is in making it easier for the core developers to not face the
> problem.

Not that I'm in charge of the `dynamic-wind' API, but I would think
that the way to learn what the best API would be in the future is to
*learn from* wrappers like those we're talking about here, rather than
avoiding wrappers.
-- 
sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu



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