At Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:55:03 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote: > The stated purpose of this change was to increase Racket's popularity.
The purpose I personally stated was to remove an obstacle to Racket ideas. It's perhaps fair to characterize that as "increase Racket's popularity", but I'd like to have my specific characterization here for anyone who might care to draw a distinction. > Of course, if the PLT team wants to discuss and decide, privately, > that's their prerogative. In that case I wish they'd share some of the > choices considered and rationale. This would help folks understand who > Racket is intended for, going forward. If any part of the Racket project leadership is discussing this, they aren't including me, and I wouldn't participate at this point. We are, however, currently discussing a proposal for a process for community discussion about what we should do. The idea that the Racket project leadership is discussing this is entirely plausible, of course, given the way things have operated in the past. Let me emphasize again, however, that you should take Aaron Turon's keynote as evidence that we do not want to do things the same way this time. > So if Matthew wanted to decree that he's been working on this a > quarter century and just wants to change surface syntax, next Just in case anyone has forgotten, since the live stream was recorded, I can quote myself verbatim: I am not standing here today saying this this is the direction we should go. I want to get the idea out there and start a conversation about what we should do. Apologies for answering your message very sparsely, but it's because I think your message part of a discussion that we should organize in a different way. Of course, I'm not stopping anyone from posting, anyway. I regret that I did not understand the importance of setting up a good forum for discussion before even offering the idea. Live and learn. Matthew -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/5d2e8a8e.1c69fb81.930d6.f075SMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
