Daniel Sockwell

> `my Int \x = 2;` creates a symbol containing a value. > `x := 4;` binds the symbol to the value 4. > (The above somehow fails without the...

> As @patrickbkr mentioned (perhaps a bit obliquely), the error only shows up depending on whether you use the type declaration `Int` Yeah, I understood that. But my point is...

> Might be related to autoboxing, as @treyharris says. @jj, just to clarify: are you (and/or @treyharris) saying that being able to re-bind `my Int \x = 2` seems like...

> Beyond single-character **ordinary_identifiers** (which are alphabetic but not underscore (i.e. `` minus `_`, or more simply ``) I don't believe that the second part of that is correct: `_`...

> I'm not sure I agree with that design decision (presuming it was a conscious decision), to re-make the entire language and still allow something like `my \_ = 42`...

I am very confused by this issue. I've been following it for some time, but my understanding has been that this issue was related to improving the search functionality and...

> I'll describe what I think of it, please don't consider it as mocking or something, I am acting on a good will now. Thanks very much for the explanation!...

I believe that I have a partial answer to @dod38fr issue, but also a followup question. First, the answer (as I understand it): @dod38fr, the reason that precomp files are...

In case anyone else is following this issue and/or finds it in the future, I encountered to issues (one minor, on more significant) when I attempted to follow the example...

@niner indeed. Any thoughts on whether there _should_ be two very different `install-dist` scripts? I asked in #5063 (and there were related comments upthread in this issue)