Re: [racket-dev] question, issue(?) with the scope of identifiers passed into define-syntax-rule

2015-01-15 Thread Alexander McLin
Warning I am still a Racket intermediate user but I've been studying syntactic extensions a lot the past several months. The problem here is macros in Racket have lexical scope just like procedures, they are hygienic macros. The identifiers you introduced in the with-tables macro only exist or

Re: [racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

2013-08-20 Thread Alexander McLin
The new design looks good on my iPhone and on desktop. It is a good improvement over the old site. To add to Neil's comment about dividing into two sections for experienced programmers and educational outreach for aspiring programmers. One issue I often see with others when talking about Racket