[racket] #<undefined> and backward compatibility

From: Matthew Butterick (mb at mbtype.com)
Date: Fri Apr 18 13:51:19 EDT 2014

Backward compatibility is usually valuable and rarely virtuous.

If the Racket dev team considers something an "obvious improvement to the
language," then it should go into the language.



> Backward-Compatibility
> ----------------------
>
> The change is an obvious improvement to the language, but if we decide
> to stick with it, it's also a backward-incompatible change:
>
>  * Is this kind of backward incompatibility ok?
>
>    We'll base a decision on how the experiment turns out, but
>    especially if the experiment goes well, a clear mandate from the
>    Racket community would seal the deal.
>
>
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