I don't think we should add functions to TR that are not in Racket and that are not clearly type-related (e.g., `cast`).
I also like Jens's solution better. Education vs crutches. Vincent At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:39:16 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > > I'd add them to Typed Racket. That's what Haskellians are most likely to > explore and when they find them, it's a good thing (tm). -- Matthias > > > > > On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:18 AM, Alexis King <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was just thinking today that I would, for example, find it useful to have > > a (zip ...) function in racket/list that would be equivalent to (map list > > ...). Users coming from a Haskell background might even find it useful to > > have a zip-with function that is simply an alias for map. Admittedly, these > > are rather trivial, but (especially in the first case) I think they’d still > > be useful. > > > > I am all for avoiding feature creep and code bloat, but Racket’s “batteries > > included” approach seems to make functions like these prime candidates for > > libraries like racket/list. As long as they’re not in racket/base, they > > seem fairly harmless, especially considering they would only be needed at > > compile-time. > > > > Should I even consider adding things like this, or is the consensus that > > the libraries are mostly sufficient as-is? > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Racket Developers" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/5D941DB1-8A55-4A41-98A2-A3BE1BFE6D40%40gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/EAAD5B93-DB78-419B-A662-131AD1D3E303%40ccs.neu.edu. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/87d258qxg8.wl%25stamourv%40ccs.neu.edu. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
