Another approach is to give it a name in the documentation and use that name (following Jay's earlier message).
Robby On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 1:37 PM 'John Clements' via Racket Users < [email protected]> wrote: > I think I wouldn’t say “accepts”; I usually reserve this term for > functions, but that’s a minor quibble. > > I think I would call these “clauses”, as in > > “With-handlers allows the user to specify exception-handling clauses. Each > one includes two parts: a predicate, indicating whether blah blah blah, and > a handler, which is called blah blah blah.” > > No? > > John > > > On Sep 24, 2021, at 11:28, David Storrs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 1:49 PM Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think the word you're looking for is "syntax". Many people think that > languages like Racket "don't have syntax" or "have uniform syntax", but > this is an example of how that is incorrect. Each macro has its own unique > syntax and this is an example of how `let` has a unique syntax where `(` > does _not_ mean "apply a function" or "apply a macro". > > > > As a poor analogy, many human languages have a wide set of phonemes and > you combine those in certain rules (like you can't have 27 consonant sounds > in a row) and then use them in wider situations that we call grammar. I > like to think that languages like C has lots of phonemes and little > grammar, because there are lots of rules about how to form "C words" but > basically no rules for how to form "C sentences", because there's a lot of > uniformity in how expressions and statements combine. In contrast, > languages like Racket have very few phonemes (this is what I think people > mean why they say "there is no syntax") but many varied rules (in fact, > arbitrary, because macros can customize them) for combining those smaller > units. > > > > So there's no specific term for this structure? I was looking for a > standardized way to say something like "with-handlers accepts a group of > two-element groups where each subgroup consists of a predicate and an > action." > > > > Jay > > > > -- > > Jay McCarthy > > Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell > > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > Vincit qui se vincit. > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 1:25 PM David Storrs <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Racket has a number of forms that include what look like lists of lists > but are not. For example: (let ((foo 7) (bar 8)) ...) > > > > What would the '(foo 7)' and '(bar 8)' elements be called? Groups, > maybe? > > > > -- > > 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 [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAE8gKodX800fK45c_dyVFCNB-AKmYmK26DxC42ZRDVHdzJ2Q7g%40mail.gmail.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 [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAE8gKoeM6YYgpj-4Ey%2BoSSKRS%2BfMch3d0GDu85f9mwHmtxwVig%40mail.gmail.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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/11a531ce-22f2-4f23-8246-46c6c77ffae7%40mtasv.net > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAL3TdOOx5LWptTUbHzxFp5BbcS73ikkq%2B4FMm25YmGdVY3N1VA%40mail.gmail.com.
