[racket-dev] Cross-Collection Documentation - a PLaneT Philosophy Question (or Two)

2011-09-22 Thread Doug Williams
I have three PLaneT packages that together implement a knowledge-based simulation capability. I did this because each of the packages is useful in its own right. The science collection provides the basic mathematical framework - I use it separately in many analysis applications. The simulation

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23587: master branch updated

2011-09-22 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:52 AM, ro...@racket-lang.org wrote: | Add the following keybindings in a (hopefully) transparent REPL-friendly way: HOW? _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23587: master branch updated

2011-09-22 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:52 AM, ro...@racket-lang.org wrote: | Add the following keybindings in a (hopefully) transparent REPL-friendly way: HOW? They keybindings automates what you can already do with some

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23587: master branch updated

2011-09-22 Thread Matthias Felleisen
How does this preserve transparency? Yes, you can break transparency with a handful of keystrokes of your own, but when you do so, you know you're doing it. Now you're supporting it, blessing it. On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Robby Findler wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:17 AM,

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23587: master branch updated

2011-09-22 Thread Robby Findler
Oh, if what you're saying is that we never had a transparent REPL all along, then fine. We still don't. (I don't know about blessing. That's something that type systems and priests do and I'm neither of those.) BUT, in my mind, in a practical sense, what we have a better than the old Emacs style

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #23587: master branch updated

2011-09-22 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Robby Findler wrote: if what you're saying is that we never had a transparent REPL all along, And we also don't have a safe language and we don't have all kinds of stuff. Please! _ For list-related

[racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread John Clements
In distributing compiled binaries for Windows, I'm trying to cover all of the bases for the required DLLs. As far as I can tell from Visual Studio 2010, there are only two flavors, 32-bit and 64-bit. However, I see that on at least one of my students' machines, the system-library-subpath

Re: [racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew or someone can give an authoritative answer, but if this lets you sleep tonight... I suspect the win32 in Racket is fine, and that Visual Studio just has a backward-compatibility awkwardness in naming. Win32 was the name of one of the generations of Windows API, and I believe that

Re: [racket-dev] system-library-subpath etc. on windows 32-bit and 64-bit platforms?

2011-09-22 Thread John Clements
On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:22 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Matthew or someone can give an authoritative answer, but if this lets you sleep tonight... I suspect the win32 in Racket is fine, and that Visual Studio just has a backward-compatibility awkwardness in naming. Win32 was the name of one