Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
2015-02-17 14:26 GMT+01:00 Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu: I don't think the libraries are sufficient as is, but I would resist adding aliases. A alternative: Added the word zip to the documentation index, link it to map and have an example where in (map list ...) is used. Also:

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:26 AM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I don't think the libraries are sufficient as is, but I would resist adding aliases. Perhaps a better way to get people coming from Haskell would be to write an essay specifically aimed there? - Step 1: use

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard jensa...@soegaard.net wrote: 2015-02-17 14:26 GMT+01:00 Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu: I don't think the libraries are sufficient as is, but I would resist adding aliases. A alternative: Added the word zip to the documentation

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Vincent St-Amour
I don't think we should add functions to TR that are not in Racket and that are not clearly type-related (e.g., `cast`). I also like Jens's solution better. Education vs crutches. Vincent At Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:39:16 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote: I'd add them to Typed Racket. That's

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
At some point TR will move on, and perhaps the time has come. On Feb 17, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Vincent St-Amour stamo...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: I don't think we should add functions to TR that are not in Racket and that are not clearly type-related (e.g., `cast`). I also like Jens's solution

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I'd add them to Typed Racket. That's what Haskellians are most likely to explore and when they find them, it's a good thing (tm). -- Matthias On Feb 17, 2015, at 2:18 AM, Alexis King lexi.lam...@gmail.com wrote: I was just thinking today that I would, for example, find it useful to have a

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Robby Findler
I don't think the libraries are sufficient as is, but I would resist adding aliases. Perhaps a better way to get people coming from Haskell would be to write an essay specifically aimed there? - Step 1: use variables. - Step 2: here are `for` loops! ;) Robby On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:18

Re: [racket-dev] What is the policy on what is included in the core libraries?

2015-02-17 Thread Robby Findler
Yes, that's true. Robby On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@cs.indiana.edu wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Jens Axel Søgaard jensa...@soegaard.net wrote: 2015-02-17 14:26 GMT+01:00 Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu: I don't think the libraries are