I also don't know what they are. They appear to have been added by Neil T 18 months ago. Neil?
Sam On Jun 21, 2013 6:37 PM, "Robby Findler" <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > > I'm not completely clear on what latent-contracts are, but perhaps options > should be being used there? > > Robby > > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu> > wrote: >> >> The new package organization gives us a chance to re-asses the >> "unstable" collection. >> >> Going forward, I think the "unstable" collection should be used in the >> following ways: >> >> 1. If you build something that you think is general-purpose, but is >> only used in one package, put it in `unstable/foo`, but keep it inside >> that package. >> >> 2. If you either (a) want to use some other package's `unstable/foo` >> library, or (b) create such a library that's used across multiple >> packages, create a separate package called "unstable-foo" for it. >> >> It's perhaps worth saying why we still need "unstable" at all in the >> new regime. We might just create a new package for, say, parameter >> groups, and just add that as a dependency of "plot". But that would >> ship a library in a useful location, and potentially commit us to that >> library and API for the future. So I think we should keep "unstable" >> around. >> >> With that said, I'd like to also propose moving the following out of >> "unstable": >> >> # `unstable/list` >> >> - `remf`, `list-update` `list-set` `map/values`: move to `racket/list` >> - `group-by`: rename to `group`, add keyword argument `#:by` >> defaulting to `equal?`, move to `racket/list` >> >> - `extend`, `filter/values`: move back into Typed Racket >> - `list-prefix?`: move back into the web server >> >> - `map2`, `check-duplicate`, `*-common-prefix`: Delete >> >> # `unstable/parameter-group` >> >> This is used by both the "image" and "plot" libraries. Create a new >> top-level collection and package. >> >> # `unstable/latent-contract` >> >> Currently undocumented. Used by the image collection anyway. This >> needs to be fixed. >> >> That's it for things outside of the "unstable" package, which I'll >> tackle another time. >> >> Sam >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > > _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev