[racket-dev] Release for v6.0.2 is about to begin

2014-07-02 Thread Ryan Culpepper
The release process for v6.0.2 will begin in about a week. If you have any new features that you want in and are relatively close to being done, now is a good time to do that. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] for loops with interleaved escape continuations

2014-07-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:26 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Loop syntax and sugar is fine. And having "#:continue" and "#:break" > keywords at the top of the form is sufficient warning of surprises ahead, > IMHO. > > I do have a minor ongoing concern that people coming from other languages > lately l

Re: [racket-dev] for loops with interleaved escape continuations

2014-07-02 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Loop syntax and sugar is fine. And having "#:continue" and "#:break" keywords at the top of the form is sufficient warning of surprises ahead, IMHO. I do have a minor ongoing concern that people coming from other languages lately latch onto the "for" family of forms from the start, don't get

Re: [racket-dev] for loops with interleaved escape continuations

2014-07-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Interestingly enough, I tried to explain this idea to the Imperative Advanced Placement crowd in the 1990s. With functional programming -- control from tail-recursive functions -- is more expressive than programming with limited loops because you can (1) break/resume/continue/foobar your 'loops