Re: [racket-dev] Enhancement to the syntax system?

2014-05-13 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
I realize this is a very old thread, but the behavior of Racket has not changed since. On 03-05-14 23:29, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: On 07/10/2012 05:03 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:51:57 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: 20 minutes ago, Marijn wrote: It seems to me that both

Re: [racket-dev] Enhancement to the syntax system?

2014-05-13 Thread Matthew Flatt
The difference between (define-for-syntax (fx x) #`(let ((x 0)) #,x)) ^---* and (define-for-syntax (fy y) #`(let ((x 0)) #,y)) * is that the `x` of `(let ((x ...)))` gets lexical context from the `x` argument to `fx`, but

[racket-dev] A very interesting post about Webkit's new JS JIT

2014-05-13 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
For anyone interested in high performance JIT compilers, Filip Pizlo's post here: https://www.webkit.org/blog/3362/introducing-the-webkit-ftl-jit/ about the new JIT they've added in WebKit using LLVM will be very interesting. Sam _ Racket Developers list: