John, If your name is ever submitted for sainthood, I'll sign the documents.
Many thanks from a grateful teacher! (Now I need to learn how to do this stuff myself...) Regards, Josh On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 8:58 PM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > Okay, this might now be done. You should be able to install it using > > raco pkg install simply-scheme > > OR you can use the package manager from within DrRacket. > > MAJOR disclaimer: I am not a user of Simply Scheme, and this package does > not appear to include any tests. > > However, it appears that > > (+ “40” 2) > > does evaluate to 42, and > > (random 34) > > evaluates to different numbers on subsequent runs. That’s about all I know > to test …. > > Let me know if you have any questions or problems with it. > > John Clements > > (and now I’m yet another hour behind on my grading… If only I still had an > advisor to tell me to stop wasting time on these things.) > > > On Oct 22, 2017, at 18:50, Josh Paley <josh.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > While I appreciate the level of detail that Stephen provided, I am > absolutely slammed and don't know github usage, so what looks smallish to > you (and probably would be for me if I were better educated on the system) > is looking mighty large to me. In terms of the fix, what needs to change > is that there is code in simply.scm that needs to be commented out; > everything else remains as it originally was. And the code is actually > documented within simply.scm: it says to remove the RANDOM code if the > underlying interpreter supports it (which is the case here) and that's it. > > > > The version of Scheme this was designed for was at UC-Berkeley. It > wouldn't surprise me if there was some common ground with MIT Scheme, but I > don't know for sure. > > > > I do plan to learn github at some point, but I'm kind of stuck at the > moment. If it only took an evening from where I am right now, I'd do this, > but my lack of familiarity with the overall system has me very > uncomfortable. > > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Robby Findler < > ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle > > <spdegabrie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don’t think packages on PLaneT can be updated but I may be wrong. > > > > They can be updated, but I would recommend that, instead of updating > > them, you move them to pkgs, as Stephen suggests. > > > > (Of course, if you know people are using them and they cannot easily > > change your code, please do update the planet version! But in any > > other situation, I'd recommend abandoning them.) > > > > Robby > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
