off topic, Re: [racket-users] Defining a symbol breaks symbols?

2015-10-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Oct 2, 2015, at 9:50 AM, "John B. Clements" wrote: > >> On Sep 30, 2015, at 2:57 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: >> >> >> On Sep 30, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Lyle Kopnicky wrote: >> >>> I'm used to static languages lately and it's been a long time since I've >>> programmed in a Lisp. >> >>

Re: off topic, Re: [racket-users] Defining a symbol breaks symbols?

2015-10-08 Thread Lyle Kopnicky
Yes, sorry, I've been traveling and didn't have time to respond. I was originally tempted to say "statically typed" and then realized that wasn't exactly right, because it was not static types that would forbid such a construction, so I said "static languages" suggesting languages where things cann

Re: off topic, Re: [racket-users] Defining a symbol breaks symbols?

2015-10-08 Thread Alex Knauth
> On Oct 8, 2015, at 9:00 AM, Lyle Kopnicky wrote: > > Yes, sorry, I've been traveling and didn't have time to respond. I was > originally tempted to say "statically typed" and then realized that wasn't > exactly right, because it was not static types that would forbid such a > construction,