[racket-dev] Call for help testing course binaries written in Racket

2012-08-30 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
Hello Racketeers! Shriram and I are running a course this fall with a significant online component (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/OnLine/). We'll start distributing course software to well over a thousand students next Friday. We're (of course) writing the course software in Racket.

Re: [racket-dev] Call for help testing course binaries written in Racket

2012-09-08 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
Props to the Racket build tools for making this work so smoothly, and thanks to you all! On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Joe Gibbs Politz wrote: > Hello Racketeers! Shriram and I are running a course this fall with a > significant online component > (http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses

Re: [racket-dev] Documentation for dynamic-require and related terms is confusing.

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
+1. I started using dynamic-require for the first time over the past few weeks, and was quite bewildered at first. It took me a while to figure out that all I needed was a symbol, and I don't understand the other options yet. I mentioned this separately to Matthew already, because he was helping

[racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
A small suggestion: I used roughly this macro (credit Jonah Kagan) recently to help me write some tests for parsing code that agnostic to which source position is generated in the parse: (define-syntax test/match (syntax-rules () [(test/match actual expected pred) (let ([actual-val act

Re: [racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
ote: > Yeah, that is very nice! (It should begin with "check" not "test" tho, > right?) > > Robby > > > On Monday, November 19, 2012, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > >> >> That is cute. Why don't you just create a pull request and Ryan can &g

Re: [racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
> (? P) => (lambda (x) (match x [P true] [_ false])) I like this quite a bit. It wouldn't be crazy to add it as match-pred(icate) right next to match-lambda, match-let, and friends ( http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/match.html?q=match&q=match-pred#(form._((lib._racket/match..rkt)._match-lam

Re: [racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
is better to have a check-match since that way people are > more likely to find it. > > Robby > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz > wrote: > >> (? P) => (lambda (x) (match x [P true] [_ false])) > > > > I like this quite a bit. It wou

Re: [racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
I think I've successfully sent a thingie to you: https://github.com/plt/racket/pull/171 Let me know if I Did It Wrong. This is the first time I've clicked the "Pull Request" button on Github. On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Joe Gibbs Politz wrote: > Gotcha. match

Re: [racket-dev] check-match?

2012-11-21 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
ov 20, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > I'm not sure how to find the right incantation to pull this down, but > this commit looks good to push to our repo. > > Robby > > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Joe Gibbs Politz wrote: >> I think I've successf

Re: [racket-dev] How to avoid to modify .gitignore when pull request

2012-12-13 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
> Unfortunately I don't have his email, so I hope he'll read this or > perhaps someone here can forward this to him. Got it, I'll add to the post this evening. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] How to avoid to modify .gitignore when pull request

2012-12-13 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
> I was following your blog too, haha. Glad to hear it was useful! I've updated the post on the blog. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev