Re: [racket-dev] Internal definitions in `define'

2011-12-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
I was against it for similar reasons, but the question is whether there's a technical point that makes it a bad choice. As for making errors: I changed my mind when I though about the symmetry argument -- using the same argument, I'd expect to do the exact same kind of mistakes with functions,

Re: [racket-dev] no capturing groups in regexp-split? [was Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split]

2011-12-30 Thread Marijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30-12-11 09:32, Eli Barzilay wrote: This doesn't look like an issue that is related to guile, just that he chose python as the goal... The first other random example I tried was `split-string' in Emacs, which did the same thing as Racket.

Re: [racket-dev] no capturing groups in regexp-split? [was Re: [PATCH] add regexp-split]

2011-12-30 Thread Eli Barzilay
7 hours ago, Marijn wrote: On 30-12-11 09:32, Eli Barzilay wrote: Without the capturing group the results are identical: [...] Which is expected. Good, just establishing a baseline here, but it is good that some compatibility is *expected*. I meant that getting the same results is

Re: [racket-dev] Internal definitions in `define'

2011-12-30 Thread Neil Toronto
Now that I'm a whiny junior dev, does that mean I can do the +/-1 thing? Because after reading Eli's argument - particularly the symmetry arguments - I'm totally +1-ing his proposal. This is one of the last places I find myself using the (let () ...) idiom. (The others are

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Another variation, if you're thinking about cloud infrastructure today: you could pretty easily make your own faux PLaneT server that either is for a single app or takes the identity/profile of the app as part of the URL the app uses to access the PLaneT server. The faux server can be a tiny

[racket-dev] Small typo in scribble/core docs

2011-12-30 Thread J. Ian Johnson
I'm not set up to make a pull request on this computer, but core.scrbl needs to add an s to make contents the field name for multiarg-element, not content. -Ian _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Small typo in scribble/core docs

2011-12-30 Thread Matthew Flatt
Thanks! At Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:45:01 -0500 (EST), J. Ian Johnson wrote: I'm not set up to make a pull request on this computer, but core.scrbl needs to add an s to make contents the field name for multiarg-element, not content. -Ian _ Racket Developers list:

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Daniel Farina
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Neil Van Dyke n...@neilvandyke.org wrote: It's good to see interest in Racket from cloud people.  Feel free to ask lots of questions on the Racket users and dev email lists as you work through your solution. Well, this a side-interest for personally, but

Re: [racket-dev] dependencies and racket

2011-12-30 Thread Daniel Farina
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:07 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: I think that a minor variation on Neil's strategy should not be too difficult to do (but I'll certainly agree that it is not an ideal situation). What you'd do is first just download (via the Bam method below :)