This is tomorrow! I hope to see many of you there! Jay
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:12 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > On April 27th at 11am EDT, please join us for the third Inside Racket > Seminar where Ryan Culpepper will give us a walk-through of the > implementation of syntax-parse. > > As before, it will be on Google Hangouts on Air with Ryan walking > through the code and giving an explanation of how it all hooks > together. This is not a tutorial on Racket or on the library, but a > kind of oral history and explanation of the software and how it works. > Our hope is that this will increase the ability of others to build and > maintain similar software as we share this kind of expertise in a way > that doesn't fit our existing distribution mechanisms (research > papers, RacketCon talks, documentation, etc.) > > Hangouts on Air link: > https://plus.google.com/events/cj9u27pp3a912t9g01prvj36osg > > I hope that you are able to attend and send your own questions as we go > through. > > Here are some things you may want to look at to prepare: > > 0. Have an understanding of macros and, in particular, some sense of > the systems that were in use before syntax-parse. > > 1. Take a lot at the documentation to have a sense of what the library > can do: http://docs.racket-lang.org/syntax/stxparse.html > > 2. Ryan's paper with Matthias, "Fortifying Macros", is an introduction > the error reporting algorithm. > > Please feel free to send questions beforehand, on this thread or to me > personally. We will archive the video for later viewing, etc. > > As a small preview of his style, here's a video of Ryan, Sam, and I > talking about synchronizable events and UNIX domain sockets after > Asumu's defense last month: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNaX7gSa_pM > > Jay > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.github.io "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAJYbDanRWMOw9mrbFrQpqX7ds40%3DQsf_eKSRHuKKFpZJmPq6WA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
