[racket] `def' ?

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik at topoi.pooq.com)
Date: Sat May 12 18:28:29 EDT 2012

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:42:32PM +0200, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> 2012/5/11 Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu>:
> > Funny that this came up here, since just the other day I saw that the
> > latest release of Gauche has this feature, but using the $ identifier:
> >  http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/
> 
> Here is the manual entry:
> 
> http://practical-scheme.net/gauche/man/gauche-refe_24.html#index-_0024

That differs in that $ is a macro, and hence can only be used in 
contexts where macro  proccssing is active (such as eventually executed 
expressions).  Whereas my / is paart of the read syntax, and therefor 
can be used anywhere.

-- hendrik

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