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Re:Racket 8.1 by bjoli on Friday May 07, 2021 @03:59PM (#27080243)
So do I. However, whenever I think of changes I would like to do to guile I end up with a language a lot closer to racket... Immutable pairs, immutable hash tables, immutable strings (which racket has not), user extensible pattern matching and a proper looping facility (preferrablymore powerful than rackets).

Add to that some better facilities for mixing languages and it is a very nice language that is very close to racket. Yet for some reason I find guile more fun.

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Re:Racket 8.1 by gus_massa on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:09PM (#27081416)
Nitpicking:

> immutable strings (which racket has not)

The reader makes strings in the sour code immutable by default. And if you have a mutable string you can use string->immutable-string https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/strings.html#%28def._...

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Re:Racket 8.1 by bjoli on Sunday May 09, 2021 @02:04AM (#27093630)
Yeah. I should have been more clear. I meant as the default. There are all kinds of nice optimizations that can be done with immutable strings compared to mutable ones. Which I probably don't have to tell you, Gustavo :) I have been reading every patch you have made to chez, not understanding half of it but loving every moment.
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