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		mattmight on Feb 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Racket 5.1 Released Racket has been rocking my world lately. In particular, I love that you can arbitrarily define (or redefine) patterns for the match construct using macros. It leads to some damn elegant code: http://matt.might.net/articles/red-black-delete/ http://matt.might.net/articles/parsing-with-derivatives/

copper on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

I played around (rather ineffectually) with David's Haskell code, back when the whole "Yacc is Dead" stuff was here, and I still tend to believe that Haskell results in less code when laziness is involved :)

That said, I think I really like define/fix

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