Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 12, Eli Barzilay wrote: ** The addition is *slow*. Very slow. I wrote a test program to sum up the integers from 0 to 200 -- and I get these numbers (test code attached below): I forgot the attachment. x.rkt Description: Binary data -- ((lambda (x) (x x))

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 13, Noel Welsh wrote: I think this is incorrect. I read: - When we provide APIs we lock ourselves into them - The proposed sequence API is slow and can't be sped up without significant effort (cf worldwide shortage of Matthew-Flatt-hours) - We shouldn't lock ourselves into a slow

Re: [racket-dev] new release policy

2010-08-16 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Aug 12, Jay McCarthy wrote: [...] Of the additions I made, I believe that only seqn-cons, seqn-rest, seqn-tail, seqn-append, seqn-map, seqn-filter, and seqn-add-between will have the speed problem. Side note: I read these as seq n this, seq n that, ... -- at least to me, seqn works pretty

Re: [racket-dev] Nit in Windows build files

2010-08-16 Thread Matthew Flatt
I changed the name in libracket.vcproj. At Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:58:22 +1000, Paul Steckler wrote: In last night's build, the Visual Studio solution file src/worksp/racket/racket.sln contains the line: Project({8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}) = libracket,

Re: [racket-dev] status of the new `racket/gui'

2010-08-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew also made this work with the older GTK-related libraries on Debian Stable. So if you tried before and were thwarted, it works now. (Thanks, Matthew.) -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _ For list-related administrative tasks:

[racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread John Clements
I happened upon the Racket wikipedia page again, and yet again the Hello World section made me want to cry. So I deleted it, and replaced it with the straightforward version of racket's Hello, World! program, viz.: #lang racket Hello, World! ...then I added the sierpinski example from the

Re: [racket-dev] Added Sierpinski example to wikipedia page

2010-08-16 Thread Robby Findler
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:51 PM, John Clements cleme...@brinckerhoff.org wrote: ...then I added the sierpinski example from the racket-lang front page.  I'm hoping that whoever wrote this code will either not object, or change it. I wrote an early version of it and certainly don't object or