[Fluxus] My first fluxus-powered project

[Sam Tobin-Hochstadt]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 December 2012 17:11, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Actually, the Racket community has been moving more towards so-called
>> "internal define" style as the general rule, instead of using `let`.
>>
>> Here's an (unofficial) style guide that discusses it:
>> http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/Style/style/Choosing_the_Right_Construct.html#%28part._.Definitions%29
>
> Thank you!
>
> I see the reasoning they use, but when they move on to "cond" I'm
> missing any discussion of "when", which I use a lot because it's
> simple. I'm not so sure about avoiding lambda either, especially as
> using the Greek letter saves typing :-). The for/list stuff on the
> other hand is really nice.

Certainly `when` is a good idea -- `cond` is mostly opposed to `if` in
that section.  As for avoiding `lambda`, mostly that's when a named
function would work better.

Sam