I think it's fair to say that the Racket style guide is not as rigid as
some other style guides for some other languages: as it says itself in the
introduction, it "isn’t complete and it isn’t perfect" and is more a set of
"guidelines and best practices" than binding universal rules. I think it is
On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 1:22:48 PM UTC-4, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> > On Mar 11, 2019, at 1:18 PM, Brian Adkins > wrote:
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> > I want let semantics, but I've been using define more because it's
> preferred in the Racket style guide. I don't want the behavior of define
> above, s
Yes, I hadn't really thought through the semantics of define (i.e. whether
it had let or letrec semantics). So, in my case, since I want let
semantics, I will use let. I'm happy to follow the Racket style guide when
I get to the point of contributing code that is covered by it, but I think
I wi
> On Mar 11, 2019, at 1:18 PM, Brian Adkins wrote:
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> I want let semantics, but I've been using define more because it's preferred
> in the Racket style guide. I don't want the behavior of define above, so
> using letrec to get a runtime error instead of compile time error doesn't
> make s
On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 1:13:30 PM UTC-4, Brian Adkins wrote:
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> On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 12:29:40 PM UTC-4, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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>> > On Mar 11, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Brian Adkins wrote:
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>> > I just discovered that define will fail at runtime, where let would
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To be fair:
As a new user, it's possible to have the intuition that `define` is
just a way to avoid indentation -- that it "writes a `let` for you,
from the point of the define to 'the end of the enclosing scope'".
And it's possible for that intuition to seem correct for a very long
time -- until
On Monday, March 11, 2019 at 12:29:40 PM UTC-4, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
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> > On Mar 11, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Brian Adkins > wrote:
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> > I just discovered that define will fail at runtime, where let would fail
> at compile time. Besides helping to keep the indentation level from
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> On Mar 11, 2019, at 11:21 AM, Brian Adkins wrote:
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> I just discovered that define will fail at runtime, where let would fail at
> compile time. Besides helping to keep the indentation level from marching to
> the right "too much", what are the benefits of define over let?
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I just discovered that define will fail at runtime, where let would fail at
compile time. Besides helping to keep the indentation level from marching
to the right "too much", what are the benefits of define over let?
--- snip ---
#lang racket
(define (f n) (+ n 1))
(define (foo)
(define b (f
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