Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Neil Toronto
On 05/30/2012 03:40 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: Now, lets imagine that instead of a simple `' hole, there are two kinds of holes with an up or a down direction -- this leads to this kind of a syntax: (○ foo bar baz (substring ↑ 3 8) (string-trim ↑) (let ([str ↑]) ↓) (and

Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Laurent
How about a define* that is exactly like let* without the additional indentation level? E.g.: (define* [↑ foo bar baz] [↑ (substring ↑ 3 8)] [str (string-trim ↑)] [↑ (regexp-match? #rx^[a-z].*[a-z]$ str)]) (and ↑ (string-append * str *)) Laurent Le 31 mai 2012 19:04, Neil Toronto

Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Laurent
(sorry for the bad indentation, writing s-exps on a phone predictive keyboard is painful...) Le 31 mai 2012 19:21, Laurent laurent.ors...@gmail.com a écrit : How about a define* that is exactly like let* without the additional indentation level? E.g.: (define* [↑ foo bar baz] [↑ (substring

Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Jay McCarthy
I was clapping through the majority of your email. I want define* so bad. I use compose and curry a lot (even though I know their performance problems) because it don't have to name things. I like the idea of the - thing with the down and up arrows. I see a value in both arrows. I also like

Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Ryan Culpepper
On 05/31/2012 02:54 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: I was clapping through the majority of your email. I want define* so bad. You can use define*; just put it inside of package-begin: (require racket/package) (package-begin (define* x 1) (define* x (+ 2 x)) x) 3 I don't think

Re: [racket-dev] Code micro-level organization

2012-05-31 Thread Jay McCarthy
I know about package-begin, it's just not worth it if I need to bring in another require and add package-begin Jay On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Ryan Culpepper r...@cs.utah.edu wrote: On 05/31/2012 02:54 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: I was clapping through the majority of your email. I want