Re: [racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Barland, Ian
>>  - The whole distinction between operators and functions is a lie! >> > Except it's not. I've run into educators who taught Scheme who > thought this way, and the accounts of Scheme they gave were nonsense. > Perhaps I overspoke; it was the idea that I didn't need *two* syntaxes for calling (a

Re: [racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Barland, Ian
I will definitely use p4p next time I teach racket to beginners. * My only qualms are about "do:" and "if:" as keywords, instead of more function-like syntax. Looking back at what I found beautiful and elegant and liberating about scheme the very first time I saw it: - The whole distinction bet