[racket] future

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 29 16:00:28 EDT 2011

At Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:51:20 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> 20 minutes ago, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
> > I like it.
> > 
> > I'm afraid I just don't understand Eli's response to this...
> 
> It's unrelated to the name: you see `as-thread' and `thread',
> `as-future' and `future', and you learn the difference.  Then you see
> `as-delay' and you get surprised that `delay' is not expecting a
> thunk.

I included `as-delay' only for consistency (I thought) with the earlier
lists, so let's skip it.



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