Like Maxima? DrRacket interactions already does most of what Jupyter and Maxima does, but lacks the functionality of cells, and the ability to re-evaluate them.
Would this replace ‘interactions’, or would it be a new editor<%>? It’s a great idea - it seems a little like ‘code bubbles’, but for the repl. S. On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 10:47, Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote: > If anyone is looking to avoid relatives over the winter holiday season, > here's an idea for a big feature to add to DrRacket (which I really wish > I could do myself right now)... > > If you've not seen a "notebook" interface, like in Jupyter Notebook and > some other data science-oriented tools, one way to look at it is like a > literate programming REPL that can be edited, stored to a file, and > loaded. You can also share these notebooks with others, or generate > formats like HTML or Markdown (such as for blog posts). > > The notebook is a document that's a sequence of text cells and code > cells, and the code cells include the output (e.g., expression results, > displayed plots) from the last time the code cell was evaluated (if it > was). Each code cell also displays a small serial number that indicates > in what order it was last evaluated (if it has been), which is not > necessarily the top-to-bottom order of the document while you're working > with it. Of course, you can clear this code evaluation and output at > any time, and cause all the code cells to be evaluated in-order. > > IIRC, DrRacket emphasizes the Definitions window over the Interactions > window (aka REPL), to reduce confusion for students. I think the > confusion level of the Notebook interface is somewhere between that of > Definitions window and a REPL. So the notebook interface might not be > good for new students, unless they're already comfortable with the > notebook interface from other classes. > > Implementation-wise... the people here who built DrRacket can correct me > or say more about this, but it seems DrRacket implementation might > already include most of the difficult work of implementing a notebook > interface. The evaluation engine is there, and there's UI for snips in > the Interaction window, and UI for embedding blocks of other formats in > the Definitions window. Maybe combine/adapt that in a new Notebook > window, or implement this as features of the Definitions window. Then > you can decide whether to also implement the JSON save format of Jupyter > Notebook, for possible later interoperation. And other things after > that, like in-buffer Markdown or Scribble rendering of text cells. > > -- > 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.
