On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Grant Rettke <gret...@acm.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: >> `define' is defining a potentially recursive value, so that >> >> (define (loop) (loop)) >> >> works as you expect. In simple terms, you can think about an internal >> define as something that expands to a `letrec'. So what you wrote is >> basically the same as >> >> (define (make-color color) >> (letrec ([color color]) >> ...)) > > In what kind of situations would you use internal define over letrec?
Sorry I mean using define rather than a letrec explicitly. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
