Re: [racket-users] How to test that a file is syntactically correct, but don't run it

2016-11-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Or check out Shill. It may just be what you want. — Matthias > On Nov 26, 2016, at 3:45 PM, Alexis King wrote: > > Many of the other answers here are good, but I want to try and give a > couple more options and a little more context. > > First of all, in Racket, the phrase “syntactically cor

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
The documentation site includes links to PDFs. You could print — Matthias > On Nov 26, 2016, at 3:22 PM, SR wrote: > > The "Program Contour" feature is another revelation! I appreciate, finally, > why those "pesky" many-line declarations of things like > ;;

RE: [racket-users] Re: Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Jos Koot
Go to menu item: edit, preferences, background-expansion and enable it. Sometimes it is necessary to close and reopen DrRacket to get the choices active. Jos -Original Message- From: racket-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:racket-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of SR Sent: sábado, 26 de

Re: [racket-users] How to test that a file is syntactically correct, but don't run it

2016-11-26 Thread Alexis King
Many of the other answers here are good, but I want to try and give a couple more options and a little more context. First of all, in Racket, the phrase “syntactically correct” is a little bit vague. It could mean that a program is successfully parsed from text to s-expressions, which is the reade

[racket-users] Re: Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread SR
Jos, What is "background expansion" and how do I turn it on to see if it helps me? I just did a search of help and didn't find the term. I did look around in view but don't see that as a choice. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" grou

[racket-users] Re: Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread SR
The "Program Contour" feature is another revelation! I appreciate, finally, why those "pesky" many-line declarations of things like ;;; ; ;;; ; ;; ; ; ;; ; ; ; ; ; ;; ; ;

RE: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Jos Koot
For me DrRacket's IDE is perfect, especially with background expansion turned on. The IDE includes things like: Have a list of all definitions and jump to one of them. Right click an imported variable and you can go to its docs or to the file it comes from. Checking matching parentheses (pl

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthias Felleisen
As Matthew B wrote, but in general, I think you have hit the nail on the head — if you come from/are used to a world where the IDE governs your thinking. With Racket we try a different approach; we want the language to govern your thinking and we want the language to allow you to think directl

Re: [racket-users] DrRacket Crashes on New MacBook Pro

2016-11-26 Thread Matthew Butterick
On Nov 26, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Robby Findler wrote: > Thanks. I believe the 32 bit version works, so you can use that as a > workaround for now. If you build from source, you can force a 32-bit build by appending a config string to `make ...` like so: make CONFIGURE_ARGS_qq="--disable-mac64" or

Re: [racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread Matthew Butterick
On Nov 26, 2016, at 7:54 AM, SR wrote: > I am hoping someone out there can recommend a strong editor / IDE which makes > it trivial to collapse blocks of code or otherwise make it a lot easier to > navigate through long racket programs FWIW, DrRacket does have a "Collapse S-expression" functio

Re: [racket-users] DrRacket Crashes on New MacBook Pro

2016-11-26 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks. I believe the 32 bit version works, so you can use that as a workaround for now. Robby On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:34 AM, 'Scott Brown' via Racket Users wrote: > I recently bought a new MacBook Pro and installed Racket. Unfortunately, > DrRacket crashes immediately when I try to open it

[racket-users] DrRacket Crashes on New MacBook Pro

2016-11-26 Thread 'Scott Brown' via Racket Users
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro and installed Racket. Unfortunately, DrRacket crashes immediately when I try to open it. It appears to be due an issue with its interaction with the touch bar. Below is the problem report from the crash. -Scott Process: DrRacket [16616] Path:

[racket-users] Best alternate editor/IDE for someone who gets overwhelmed by complexity

2016-11-26 Thread SR
Hi, I've never been a great programmer although I've done a fair amount of programming back in the days of C, Pascal, etc. I think racket is the right language for me based on expressive power, etc. but I confess it currently seems like about the worst language for me in terms of "can't see the

Re: [racket-users] eval:check and floating-point precision

2016-11-26 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 11:37 AM, luis.osa.gdc wrote: > Hi, everyone! > ``` > (check-= (t-test bacteria-a bacteria-b) 13.0 0.1) > ``` > > In short: is there a way to specify tolerance in `eval:check`? Perhaps, instead of checking directly the result of t-test you can check (good-enough (t-test .

RE: [racket-users] css and js files when using scribble

2016-11-26 Thread Jos Koot
Thanks for the clear answer. I'll try raco pkg install ..., but command line stuff is troublesome on windows. But I'll try. Jos _ From: Matthew Butterick [mailto:m...@mbtype.com] Sent: viernes, 25 de noviembre de 2016 23:03 To: Jos Koot Cc: Racket Users Subject: Re: [racket-users] css an

Re: [racket-users] How to test that a file is syntactically correct, but don't run it

2016-11-26 Thread luis.osa.gdc
Some weeks ago, I just had the exact same problem while developing a "server.rkt" module with Vim. I use the Syntactic plugin to check syntax, and this plugin in turn uses the `racket` executable to find syntax problems. My solution was to add the args "--load" when executing the module with `r

[racket-users] eval:check and floating-point precision

2016-11-26 Thread luis.osa.gdc
Hi, everyone! I am writing a simple statistical package for Racket, and I would like to have tests within my Scribble documentation (as well as Rackunit tests in the implementation modules). For the Scribble tests, I am using `eval:check`. But I have noticed that the tests do not pass unless t

Re: [racket-users] How to test that a file is syntactically correct, but don't run it

2016-11-26 Thread 'William J. Bowman' via Racket Users
raco read or raco expand may be the closest to doing this without doing much else. https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/read.html Is there some way to e.g. hook some of DrRackets syntax checker up to a raco check-syntax? That would be convenient in the terminal. -- Sent from my phoneamajig > On