[racket] future

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> At Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:22:14 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
>> 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?
>
> To me, `as-thread' and `as-future' indicate forms that produce a thread
> and a future, respectively. I don't think the ones you're listing here
> fit into that pattern.
>
> More generally, I agree that the `with-...' function names are
> unfortunate, while I'm not convinced that all the `call-with-...'
> functions need syntactic-form variants (but, for ones that do, a
> `with-' binding form seems likely the way to go).
>

Where does that leave us wrt with-output-file? Same place as delay (ie
just ignore it and move on)?

But surely there must be other thunk-accepting functions in there that
we should look into?

Robby