[racket] future

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 29 16:16:01 EDT 2011

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On Aug 29, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:

> 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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