On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Brian Adkins <lojicdot...@gmail.com> wrote:
> As I get deeper into Racket, I expect I'll occasionally find a function > I'm used to having in the standard library of another language missing. I > can easily create my own packages for this sort of thing, but some of them > may be useful enough to add to Rackets standard library. > > In the case of functions from another language's standard library, there > is at least some filtering that has already happened, but I suppose the > barrier to inclusion into the standard library varies quite a bit among > languages. > BTW if your new function is something you plan to depend on from within another program that you want to share with others, you may prefer to move it to a package. Because if it's in a package, it can be made compatible with existing released versions of Racket. Whereas if it goes into the language core, it won't be part of a stable release for a while. So those who want to use your program have to update their whole Racket installation. -- 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 options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
