[racket] Making animations in racket (or, why racket is hard to transition to from scratch)

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Stephen Bloch <sbloch at adelphi.edu> wrote:

>
> > Another thing I'd be interested in suggestions with is how to deal with
> updating a struct in a clean way.  Right now, you need to explicitly wrote
> set-world-X functions for each field in your struct, which is pretty ugly.
>  Also, the fact that structs don't have field names makes them more error
> prone.  None of this is well suited towards building complex worlds with
> lots of components.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "structs don't have field names", but the
> issue of updating individual fields of a struct is under discussion; in a
> version Fairly Soon the student languages will probably have functions that
> produce a copy of a given struct with a single field replaced.
>
>
Sorry, I was unclear.  What I meant to say is that struct constructors don't
use field names.  My sense is that this makes dealing with large complex
structs error prone.

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