On 06/04/2012 09:48 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > A few minutes ago, Jon Rafkind wrote: >> Also that example is somewhat bizarre.. I think the (clock a ...) >> template should be (get-clock) instead of ((get-clock) a ...), >> right? > No -- with that change you get a weird identifier macro where > > clock > > evaluates to (for example) 0, and > > (clock 1 2 3) > > evaluates to 0 too. Using ((get-clock) a ...) makes the latter throw > an error which makes it behave uniformly. >
Well whats bizarre about it is (clock 1 2 3) should really be a syntax error, but its converted into a runtime error instead. ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
