Re: [racket-dev] Closes PR 11062

2010-07-31 Thread Robby Findler
Right. It should be fixed now, tho. Thanks, Robby On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Robby, this fix does NOT change the problematic coverage of structures. Fields are still colored as if they had never been evaluated. On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:16

Re: [racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

2010-07-31 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
2010/7/31 Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org: There's a whole bunch of these things (in CL and Scheme), and IIRC, Jens had something very well doone recently -- but they all suffer from requiring some ugly wrapper syntax around them. Indeed. In order to keep the wrapping at a minimum I

Re: [racket-dev] Getting old versions of PLT Scheme

2010-07-31 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Jul 22, Carl Eastlund wrote: To fix a backwards compatibility bug, I just had to go download PLT Scheme 4.2.4. It's a real pain to do so. First, the Racket site doesn't seem to link to versions before 5.0. I had to go to plt-scheme.org manually. It'd be nice if I could get to the whole

Re: [racket-dev] using the Y combinator to...

2010-07-31 Thread Robby Findler
The use of the Y combinator (as opposed to the built-in forms of recursion) seems to be hacking around the ability for Ruby methods to be redefined more than anything? Robby On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi s...@cs.brown.edu wrote: ...provide a mis-feature that the