In the being-aware-of-your-competitors category:

I was sitting in the first TSRJ lecture this morning, and Kathi was introducing 
the notion of the purpose statement. One teacher in the audience raised her 
hand, and asked whether DrRacket had a python-like feature where users could 
query the system for the purpose statement associated with a given user-defined 
function.  

I wasn't familiar with Python's docstrings, so I checked them out.  In their 
current form, they're largely irrelevant, but I could definitely see it being 
useful to be able to fold purpose statements into the right-click menu in 
DrRacket.  Specifically, I see that there's a "jump to definition" entry in 
that right-click menu; perhaps it would make sense to add the purpose statement 
associated with a function directly to that menu on its instantiation.

John

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