Re: [racket-dev] Looking for volunteer(s)

2013-10-04 Thread Eli Barzilay
Yesterday, Eli Barzilay wrote: I'm looking for someone to take over mailing list moderation and possibly other similar work like monitoring newsgroups etc. To clarify this a little: * The workload is very small -- Mailman has a web interface and an email one for doing moderation; but since I

Re: [racket-dev] Generics updates

2013-10-04 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Oct 2, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: I think I prefer separate unrelated data structures, +1 We need to look at other languages and what devs say about intermingling and/or separating applicative and stateful data types. Java and Scala seem to provide particularly bad

Re: [racket-dev] Generics updates

2013-10-04 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Java and Scala seem to provide particularly bad examples, so perhaps we should not follow what they do :-) I know what you mean about Java, but I've heard lots of good things about the new Scala collections