On Apr 17, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
On Apr 17, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
Well what we have now is way way way suboptimal as even experienced
FPers (thought not Schemers) in our lab get tripped over this stuff.
1. I had forgotten that context narrowing exists. Other people don't
seem to know either.
1a. I bet the interface is too clumsy, if people can't find what
they want.
Like I said, suggestions are welcome. (That's the part that should be
easier to fix.) I can't think of anything better.
2. We need automatic context narrowing for teaching languages from
HtDP (and its relatives).
That's doable (and as Robby reminded, we had it for a while), but to
do it properly it requires a more powerful query syntax -- allowing
`or' queries, or allowing changing the order of results. This part is
harder to fix
For now, I am proposing that we order the query results by information
from the context. Specifically, we display all information that are
relevant according to the context on the first page. Everything else
is displayed on page 2 and up.
How's that? -- Matthias
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