[racket] future

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 29 14:40:55 EDT 2011

Perhaps go the other way?

(future/e <e> ...) ==> (future (lambda () <e> ...))
(thread/e <e> ...) ==> (thread (lambda () <e> ...))
(delay/e <e> ...) ==> (delay (lambda () <e> ...))

and so on?  That is, accept defeat on the primary names, but occupy
the /e namespace for the macro versions, and whatever the suffix is,
keep it really short.  There is precedent for offering macro/function
pairs in let/cc and call/cc.

(Yes, a programmer could do it themselves, but it's annoying to have
to write these over and over, and code is more readable if everyone
can agree on names -- my future/e may be your future-e may be someone
else's future/w/expr.)

Shriram


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