Re: [racket-users] Re: parameterize and keyword - doable?

2018-08-04 Thread George Neuner
On 8/4/2018 7:24 AM, Philip McGrath wrote: On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 5:26 AM, George Neuner > wrote: On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 00:08:46 -0500, Philip McGrath mailto:phi...@philipmcgrath.com>> wrote: >and you can create a function that accepts arbitrary or >dy

Re: [racket-users] Re: parameterize and keyword - doable?

2018-08-04 Thread Philip McGrath
I remembered there is also a paper by Matthew Flatt and Eli Barzilay about the design of Racket's keyword argument system, including some of the limitations of symbols-as-keywords systems (especially in sections 6 and 7, "Experience" and "Related Work"). I obviously found it very persuasive. http:

Re: [racket-users] Re: parameterize and keyword - doable?

2018-08-04 Thread Philip McGrath
On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 5:26 AM, George Neuner wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 00:08:46 -0500, Philip McGrath > wrote: > > >You can call a function with dynamically calculated keyword arguments > using > >keyword-apply > > keyword-apply#%28de

[racket-users] Re: parameterize and keyword - doable?

2018-08-04 Thread George Neuner
Hi Philip, On Sat, 4 Aug 2018 00:08:46 -0500, Philip McGrath wrote: >I'm still not sure that I understand what the original questioner is trying >to do. It might help to see an example in code to be clear that we're all >talking about the same thing. I'm not really certain either, but Sanjeev