On Friday, January 18, 2019 at 11:50:48 PM UTC-8, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > > On Jan 18, 2019, at 10:22 PM, jackh...@gmail.com <javascript:> wrote: > > > - A separation between using lists as homogeneous collections and using > lists as fixed-size tuples. So there'd be a separate `tuple?` data type > that's structurally equivalent to a list but meant to be used differently. > For example, `(list/c number?)` would mean a list of many numbers, but > `(tuple/c number?)` would mean a tuple of size 1 containing a number. > > > > "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 > functions on 10 data structures.” > http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html > "It is better to have 100 transducers operate on one data structure > interface than 10 functions on 10 data structures.” Rich Hickey, History of > Clojure >
100 functions on one data structure is how you end up with unreadable function names like list* and cadadr. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
