[racket] future

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 29 16:22:14 EDT 2011

as-current-continuation? as-output-file*? as-output-bytes? There are a
lot of these. Is someone up for going through the list sorting this
out properly?

Robby

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> as-output-file
>
>
> 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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