At some point TR will move on, and perhaps the time has come.
On Feb 17, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Vincent St-Amour <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't think we should add functions to TR that are not in Racket and > that are not clearly type-related (e.g., `cast`). > > I also like Jens's solution better. Education vs crutches. > > Vincent > > > > At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:39:16 -0500, > Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> >> I'd add them to Typed Racket. That's what Haskellians are most likely to >> explore and when they find them, it's a good thing (tm). -- Matthias >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:18 AM, Alexis King <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I was just thinking today that I would, for example, find it useful to have >>> a (zip ...) function in racket/list that would be equivalent to (map list >>> ...). Users coming from a Haskell background might even find it useful to >>> have a zip-with function that is simply an alias for map. Admittedly, these >>> are rather trivial, but (especially in the first case) I think they’d still >>> be useful. >>> >>> I am all for avoiding feature creep and code bloat, but Racket’s “batteries >>> included” approach seems to make functions like these prime candidates for >>> libraries like racket/list. As long as they’re not in racket/base, they >>> seem fairly harmless, especially considering they would only be needed at >>> compile-time. >>> >>> Should I even consider adding things like this, or is the consensus that >>> the libraries are mostly sufficient as-is? >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Racket Developers" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/5D941DB1-8A55-4A41-98A2-A3BE1BFE6D40%40gmail.com. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/EAAD5B93-DB78-419B-A662-131AD1D3E303%40ccs.neu.edu. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/63C7696A-1532-400A-825D-247BB3E31750%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
