Sounds like you're going to take a wait-and-see attitude, which sounds wise to me, but you are also welcome to participate in the discussion!
As for adopting-new-syntax vs backwards-compatibility, does it help if I were to tell you that anything new will always be "opt in", in the sense that existing programs will continue to work completely unchanged with no special annotations or anything else like that required? There is the issue of documentation that others have raised and how various writings about Racket might change to show example programs -- that may well change depending on how successful the new-syntax venture is, but Racket has been committed to backwards compatibility in a way that few programming languages are. There are piles of lecture notes (in the form of slide presentations written in Racket) from the late 90s (so not in any continuous integration system anywhere, as far as I know) that still run fine in today's Racket for example. Robby On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 1:37 AM Atlas Atlas <peacekeeperat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My question was not about backwards compatibility, but about adopting new > default syntax. > For me it is as good as dropping s-expressions because only default\main > syntax is what really mater for me. > Sorry for not expressing myself clearly enough. > > воскресенье, 11 августа 2019 г., 21:47:20 UTC+3 пользователь Robby Findler > написал: >> >> Matthew posted an (IMO) clear explanation of the state of the thinking here >> earlier. tl;dr: sexpressions will never be abandoned and backwards >> compatibility with existing languages will be maintained for the foreseeable >> future. >> >> ... but read his message if you are worried. I believe it is included in >> the github discussion you mention. >> >> Robby >> > -- > 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/e72b6c20-56a1-4d29-90e1-228877ea8f4c%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/CAL3TdOMFG610kXQwr8RPAOb5Cx%3DoF_-_v1bUUxwXth8X16Li3g%40mail.gmail.com.
