On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:12 PM Alexis King <lexi.lam...@gmail.com> wrote: > It is easy to foresee a transition away from s-expressions as a restriction > on what can be expressed via macros, mostly since non-s-expression languages > with macro systems (such as Haskell and Elixir, to name just two) usually > impose such restrictions. But that is what is so remarkable about Honu: its > macros allow what is really a superset of Racket’s current syntactic > flexibility. I think the paper has a good explanation of why this is, I just > don’t think it points out the implications explicitly enough, so if this is a > surprise to you, go back and take another look.
This point by Alexis, IMHO, is the big reason for thinking about Racket2 for me. The parenthesis notation of Racket is a restriction to make certain things easy, but we now know a lot more than we did in the past, so we can keep those things easy while removing the restriction that keeps us from doing more interesting things. Jay -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io Vincit qui se vincit. -- 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/CAJYbDamD75CtipY3TQLaNDsVAGq4Os8kziqzZqBT0ZjATiZTzg%40mail.gmail.com.
