Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Wed, 6 Jul 2011 05:59:30 -0400, Guillaume Marceau wrote: [3]There is a layout problem in my new documentation I need help with. I tried to abstract the common text between the documentation of the different levels. It's possible that the HtDP languages should be different

[racket-dev] RacketCon -- July 23 24 -- Second Call for Participation

2011-07-06 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Calling All Racketeers! Join us at RacketCon, 23 24 July 2011. http://con.racket-lang.org/ The schedule for RacketCon is now available, and includes presentations by key members of the Racket team, including Matthew Flatt on the future of Racket and Matthias Felleisen on the Program By

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:36:35 -0400, Guillaume Marceau wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: In the case of the HtDP languages, was the choice to duplicate all the text deliberate, or was it a side-effect of some other change? Yes, this was a

Re: [racket-dev] RacketCon lodging

2011-07-06 Thread Blake Johnson
I am currently looking for a place to stay. Were there any people who could host out-of-town students or any out-of-town students who would want to split the cost of a hotel room? Blake On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi s...@cs.brown.eduwrote: Also, would any Boston

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Why is it pedagogical to repeat information in the ISL documentation that the BSL documentation already presented? -- Matthias On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Guillaume Marceau wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: In the case of the HtDP languages,

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Jay McCarthy
If you read the documentation as a textbook when you start programming, I can see wanting to see something that says cond is the same as before. But, if you read the documentation as a reference when you have a problem it is frustrating to chase through a few links to get the real documentation.

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Matthias Felleisen
If it is a click away and if the idea is that students got to B because they went thru A? I admit that there are instructors who use only ISL+ or ASL. But should we accommodate the special ones or the ones that use the language hierarchy as intended? On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Jay

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Carl Eastlund
A click away can be one too many. Students have enough difficulty finding documentation as it is. The reference for ISL cond should include all the necessary details of ISL cond. How about we have a note saying that ISL cond is the same as ASL cond, then write it all out anyway. And presumably

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Jul 6, 2011, at 7:11 PM, Carl Eastlund wrote: A click away can be one too many. Students have enough difficulty finding documentation as it is. The reference for ISL cond should include all the necessary details of ISL cond. How about we have a note saying that ISL cond is the same as

Re: [racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

2011-07-06 Thread Guillaume Marceau
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Carl Eastlund c...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: A click away can be one too many.  Students have enough difficulty finding documentation as it is. Yes... On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: But, if you read the documentation as a

Re: [racket-dev] ohloh page

2011-07-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
40 minutes ago, John Clements wrote: 1) I just followed clojure's lead. https://github.com/jbclements/ohcount Thanks! I've submitted a pull request. Eli, I added you as a collaborator on this repo in case you want to add some more sophisticated tests (I just copied lisp, like Clojure

Re: [racket-dev] ohloh page

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Van Dyke
John Clements wrote at 07/06/2011 08:53 PM: 2) I see that we're in the top 2% of all open-source projects according to ohloh. Perhaps we should advertise this? Below is very opinion-heavy seat-of-pants reaction. I'm not familiar with Ohloh, and I could be off the mark... The Ohloh

Re: [racket-dev] ohloh page

2011-07-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
15 minutes ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Below is very opinion-heavy seat-of-pants reaction. I'm not familiar with Ohloh, and I could be off the mark... The Ohloh site seems oriented towards PHBs who use 'analysis' like decreasing year-over-year development activity without wondering