Re: [racket-users] Racket7 Conceit

2017-07-20 Thread Lehi Toskin
Yes, my first question was definitely answered already. -- 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

Re: [racket-users] Racket7 Conceit

2017-07-19 Thread Ben Greenman
mflatt answered some "why"s on the racket-dev list: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/racket-dev/2BV3ElyfF8Y/4RSd3XbECAAJ On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 12:34 AM, Lehi Toskin wrote: > I've read through a few README's in the racket7 repo and I can't find > anything specifically

[racket-users] Racket7 Conceit

2017-07-19 Thread Lehi Toskin
I've read through a few README's in the racket7 repo and I can't find anything specifically about *why* Racket is being implemented on top of Chez Scheme, so I suppose I'll be asking here: Why the rewrite in the first place? Is it because C is ugly and yucky and poopy? Why Chez Scheme and not,