Sorry, I was crazy. My local doc build was busted, so it didn't show up. I've never used thunk* but I presume that it's designed for when you want to have the procedure as an argument to something like map, without trying to be arity-polymorphic yourself (which is very cumbersome for keyword procedures.)
Jay On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.sp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Section 3.17 Procedures in the Racket Reference manual (my local > version with the latest Racket windows version > > On 5/13/12, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I may be crazy, but I can't find any documentation for thunk or >> thunk*. Can you tell me where you are finding these forms, so I can >> see what they do and thus how they might be useful? >> >> Jay >> >> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Harry Spier <vasishtha.sp...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> I can see where I might use the procedure thunk but I'm not clear >>> where thunk* would be used. Can someone give me some cases where >>> it would be useful. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Harry >>> ____________________ >>> Racket Users list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/users >> >> >> >> -- >> Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> >> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University >> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay >> >> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 >> -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users