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This provides a shortcut to what may be the most common use of `esc` in the surface language, viz. `(esc (λ ...))`. The change was discussed in a recent meeting on "Designing List Operations": https://github.com/drym-org/qi/wiki/Qi-Meeting-Jun-21-2024#a-better-remedy
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Use Qi equivalents as lambda is no longer valid in this position (at least until/unless drym-org#177 is merged).
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Summary of Changes
We discussed this in last week's Qi meeting. A couple more thoughts:
Using a
lambdain afloeposition is likely to be a common syntax error in practice today (although I'm hard pressed to come up with an example where we really should be using a lambda rather than a flow, aside from wanting a different order of effects..). That would seem to support that we should allow this natural tendency by recognizing it as a shorthand way to escape to Racket. On the other hand, it could lull the user into a belief that they are writingexprsyntax in this position rather thanfloe, which may cause confusion if they try to write other Racket forms without escaping them. I'm not too worried myself, but mentioning it in case anyone else has any thoughts on it.This also removes an unused utility that I noticed was showing as uncovered by tests.
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