Re: [racket-dev] Nest resurrection

2010-09-07 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Sep 7, Carl Eastlund wrote: > > FWIW, I think "nest" seems less like a macro to me and more like a > reader syntax. It's like our period-based infix notation; it just > shuffles around s-expressions syntactically, it doesn't mess with > bindings or anything else to do with semantics of an exp

Re: [racket-dev] Nest resurrection

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Eastlund
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > At some point after the Racket rename, `racket/nest' was dropped, and > every once in a while I run into a case where I really miss it.  So > here's a shot at what went wrong and an alternative vesion. > > My guess is that the main thing that m

[racket-dev] Nest resurrection

2010-09-07 Thread Eli Barzilay
At some point after the Racket rename, `racket/nest' was dropped, and every once in a while I run into a case where I really miss it. So here's a shot at what went wrong and an alternative vesion. My guess is that the main thing that made it difficult to use is the fact that it used the usual let