On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:32:08 +0900, "Benjamin L. Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:46:59 +0200, Andreas Rossberg ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[...] > >Unfortunately, I'm still a beginner, and at this point, it would >probably require quite a detour from the manual to cover promises and >fixpoint combinators before at least finishing Alice Manual - A Tour >to Wonderland. I have never programmed in any dialect of ML before, >and am more familiar with Scheme, and to a much lesser extent, >Haskell. Usually, I try to cover the introductory tutorial before >jumping up to higher ground, lest I get caught up in something very >subtle and intricate assuming background knowledge of something else >not already covered. > >Is it possible for somebody on the development or documentation team >to fix the introductory tutorial, and to post an updated version >sometime when they have enough time to finish it, before I proceed >further? I am willing to wait if necessary. At this point, I am >afraid to proceed further with the tutorial, because I forsee similar, >and perhaps more subtle, problems further down the road. For example, >if the documentation on promises and fixpoint combinators is similarly >outdated, and overcoming that problem then requires further knowledge >of something else that I don't know, then I could forsee getting stuck >in a tar pit. Sorry if my earlier message seemed a bit too finicky. I was rushing to reply during my lunch hour here, and lacked the time to make it shorter ;-) . I'll take a look at your promises and fixpoint combinator examples, and see how far I can go. The main difficulty with having to refer to other references is that I am very pressed for time, and was hoping to cover the rest of Alice Manual - A Tour to Wonderland in a single sitting, but now the requirement of having to digest the other references and integrate them into the tutorial so that I can document my session with the Interpreter makes it seem like this tutorial alone will take multiple sessions. Originally, I was hoping for a one-shot deal with the tutorial. Thanks for your help, and I'll keep you posted if I run into further difficulties with discrepancies betweeen the documentation and the language. -- Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ alice-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/mailman/listinfo/alice-users
