Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Saturday, Neil Van Dyke wrote: BTW, SXML and xexprs are a big win for Web development. For one large system in PLT Scheme, the architects have repeatedly mentioned the productivity benefits of SXML for HTML pages as one of the major advantages of using Scheme. They also have problems.

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Eli Barzilay wrote at 11/30/2010 06:36 AM: The ones I ran into, at least with xexprs: they rely on lots of quasi/quotes etc and it's easy to end up with things like quotenbsp/quote. I make errors of not getting my quotes, backquotes, and commas in the right place sometimes, but those errors

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Yesterday, Robby Findler wrote: This kind of thing has happened many times for other parts of the system (the class system is a good example). We have generally tried to avoid so much breakage and I think we should here.

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Eli Barzilay wrote at 11/30/2010 06:36 AM: The ones I ran into, at least with xexprs: they rely on lots of quasi/quotes etc and it's easy to end up with things like quotenbsp/quote. I make errors of not getting my quotes, backquotes, and commas in the

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:01 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: (The above errors were all over the old pages for years without being discovered...) Berkeley would have asked if they are really errors then :-) _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: The problem here is that there is no name to change -- it's the implicit coercion of xexpr values to a response.

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Robby Findler wrote: That said, massive backwards incompatibility as Jay is proposing seems wrong. + a lot _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
Three hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: The problem here is that there is no name to change -- it's the

[racket-dev] A game using scheme !

2010-11-30 Thread Toutsurla TI-84
Hello, I'm a french student, and I'd like to create a game, using scheme : a race for 2 players (computer or real person). What i've got to do is to creat a grid, where there is a start line, a finish line and, between them, a random number of lines... In this grid, we have walls, as in

Re: [racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

2010-11-30 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Going back to a point I'm sure others have made already... Perhaps you guys have a good sense of how many people would be affected by any incompatibilities in this case? Most people use open-output-file and hash tables, so you wanted to migrate all those people gently somehow. A relatively

[racket-dev] planet package dependencies (was: Re: code base metrics)

2010-11-30 Thread John Clements
While you're in meta-programmer mode, any interest in automatically computing planet dependencies? I'd *love* to know what packages a planet package depends on. I understand that in the presence of dynamic-require, you can only do so well, but even a first approximation could be incredibly

Re: [racket-dev] REPL crash

2010-11-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
5 hours ago, Dmitry Chestnykh wrote: The following example from docs (11.9) crashes console REPL (but not gracket or DrRacket): (define-namespace-anchor anchor) (parameterize ([current-namespace (namespace-anchor-namespace anchor)]) (expand (datum-syntax