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Oct 8, 2017 at 18:37
You can redefine function application in Racket! This would be really handy for tracing or debugging.
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Racket - Lisp beyond do Clojure
Racket - Lisp beyond do Clojure
As always, new ideas to programming languages will probably come from Lisp (as Paul Graham said). However, my guess is these things are not coming from Clojure, but from another Lisp-like language: Racket. In this presentation I show some of the things I think (hope, actually) that other languages get.
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