Re: [racket-dev] 5.0.2 changelog

2010-10-27 Thread Jon Rafkind
Would people like a list of their own commits and they can choose which ones should have an accompanying release note? $ git log da9b718bf80c3e678e1d9372c521d512e0b91747..master --author=rafkind On 10/27/2010 03:55 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jon Rafkind rafk

[racket-dev] 5.0.2 changelog

2010-10-27 Thread Jon Rafkind
Please find your name below and provide some blurb for the 5.0.2 changelog Author: Jay McCarthy j...@racket-lang.org - Adding define-datatype to ASL - PLAI changes - Webserver changes Author: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@racket-lang.org Faster loading of TR files? Author: Casey

Re: [racket-dev] building docs, compile collects

2010-10-26 Thread Jon Rafkind
Eli helped me write a module that installs a compile manager which compiles all loaded files on the fly. $ cat compile.rkt #lang racket/base (require compiler/cm) (current-load/use-compiled (make-compilation-manager-load/use-compiled-handler)) $ racket -t compile.rkt -l racket/base -t

[racket-dev] 5.0.2 changelog

2010-10-26 Thread Jon Rafkind
specifying arbitary expressions in a signature declaration. Fixes PR 11282 Vincent St-Amour commit 8baa1682af76965400ab1071a46f8ba50f7c7165 Turned the optimizer on by default. commit 8d6230956dc8c207c097a389fa1f0c7273bb55b7 Documented the optimizer. Jon Rafkind commit

Re: [racket-dev] building docs, compile collects

2010-10-25 Thread Jon Rafkind
: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: On 10/25/2010 03:06 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu wrote: My motivation is to quickly test changes to core libraries (like collects/racket) after doing a 'git

Re: [racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.0.2

2010-10-22 Thread Jon Rafkind
* Jon Rafkind rafk...@cs.utah.edu Release tests for (one of the) linux releases: - Test that the `racket' and `racket-textual' source releases compile fine - Test that the binary installers for both work, try each one in both normal and unix-style installation modes. (just

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #21160: master branch updated

2010-09-28 Thread Jon Rafkind
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~rafkind/tmp/lines.png This is not yet enabled, to see it change (show-line-numbers?) to #t. I don't know how to add menu options and configuration stuff off-hand, if anyone can whip it up quickly go for it, otherwise it will take me some extra time to figure it out.

Re: [racket-dev] Language selection considered harmful

2010-08-26 Thread Jon Rafkind
When I'm answering such questions, it is getting extremely difficult to tell people what to do, and often leads to some confusingly broken dialog. See for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3572450/packaging-system-in-racket This is mostly a rant since I don't see any easy way to

Re: [racket-dev] Language selection considered harmful

2010-08-26 Thread Jon Rafkind
On 08/26/2010 09:48 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: On Aug 26, Jon Rafkind wrote: When I'm answering such questions, it is getting extremely difficult to tell people what to do, and often leads to some confusingly broken dialog. See for example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3572450/packaging

Re: [racket-dev] Language selection considered harmful

2010-08-26 Thread Jon Rafkind
On 08/26/2010 09:33 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: It's getting to be difficult to tell people what to do wrt choosing a language. There are several things that contribute to this: * I can't use default language to refer to the module language, since it's not the default. * I can't use module

Re: [racket-dev] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Rafkind
Infix notation can be achieved unambiguously if you use LL(1) with backtracking ...which I didn't want to do. Pedagogically, it has been immensely valuable to explain to kids that + and - aren't some special thing, but are just mere operators -- and so are string-append and image-overlay and

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