[racket] Pure functional Racket

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 6 22:25:43 EDT 2011

On Jul 6, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

> But there you get the benefit of a compiler that can take advantage of
> this, and we don't.  (Even if it does, it would require even more
> subtle points like avoiding struct definintions, threads, exceptions,
> continuations...)


No that's yet another challenge. Can we 'specialize' our backend so that it can take advantaged of purity? 


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