Re: [racket] Racket forward compatability

2013-04-29 Thread Danny Yoo
>> I have found that regexp functions are too slow for large data files but >> maybe newer versions have made a change that would speed things up. (I read >> something about some solution from github but I am not sure that is >> something I should look into.) I'd rather just install a new version

Re: [racket] Racket forward compatability

2013-04-28 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Don, we have no absolute commitment to backward compatibility but we rarely break it and, when we do, we try to support the transition. [We use every feature in our language so we need those transition tools and are happy to support others.] See Neil's response. He's a power user -- Matthias

Re: [racket] Racket forward compatability

2013-04-28 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Don Green wrote at 04/28/2013 08:33 PM: Is there any assurance3 that a program written with Racket wil work with a future version of Racket? There have been a few non-backward-compatible changes over the last decade. Since you're using 5.2.1, which is fairly recent, I don't think you have to