Not much of an analogy, but I've always found the following thought inspiring:
"People that are busy trying to convince something cannot be done, mustn't disturb the ones that are already doing it!" (Sorry, could't find who's quote it is). Racket seems to be the tool for the doers - the threashold to DIY is very low, as we have seen many times. br, jukka > -----Original Message----- > From: users-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org]On Behalf Of Joan Arnaldich > Sent: 10 August 2011 10:35 > To: users@racket-lang.org > Subject: Re: [racket] Adding raw string syntax > > > > > The @ syntax originally designed for Scribble is very helpful for > > > this sort of thing. > > > > A concrete example for using it as a raw string: > > > > #lang at-exp racket > > (define r string-append) > > (display @r{...nearly free text here...}) > > > Aha! So there it was! Thanks a lot for the pointer! Ignorance is > always ignorance, but... I can't help thinking that if I had known > that I would have missed a lot of fun ;) > > > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
