A few minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote:
> I'm not sure I'm quite getting this. Is the idea that, if there is a
> #lang line present, DrRacket would always use that language. If there
> is no #lang line present, then DrRacket would use some other language,
> based on what was recently chosen in the
I'm not sure I'm quite getting this. Is the idea that, if there is a
#lang line present, DrRacket would always use that language. If there
is no #lang line present, then DrRacket would use some other language,
based on what was recently chosen in the language dialog?
Robby
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at
I know I'm not a contributor (yet), but I think it would be nice if #lang
always took priority, and a warning would appear if the #lang overrode the
language drop-down (drop-up in DrRacket I guess). I don't think anyone
using the teaching languages ever uses #lang, and when they do it's usually
bec
How about a change to the purpose of the Languages control?
Currently, I think of the control *selecting how to determine* which
language to use. Example settings "whatever #lang says", "Beginning
Student", etc.
The control could be changed to *present the determination* (by #lang or
by som
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Robby Findler
wrote:
>
>> Also, Roger (the bug reporter) tried basically all the languages in
>> the dialog, but did not understand that "Use the language declared in
>> the source" was even an option.
>
> Ugh. That's unfortunate. We spent a lot of time trying to
Unfortunately, we're not quite there yet. We do have the pane (but
with the #lang present), but the lack of the other things is mostly a
concession to the fact that it isn't yet the case that every source
file in DrRacket should begin with "#lang". Only most.
Robby
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:12 AM
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Robby Findler
> wrote:
>> I think the only place we encourage users to not use that is the
>> teaching languages, right?
>
> Yes, that's right, but people who've already used the student
> languages are
The whole #lang thing has bothered me for a long time. How about this?
EVERY Racket source file is supposed to start with a #lang line, which DrRacket
shows in a separate (non-scrollable, one-line) pane, hiding the word #lang,
since it MUST be there and therefore provides the user no informatio
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Robby Findler
wrote:
> I think the only place we encourage users to not use that is the
> teaching languages, right?
Yes, that's right, but people who've already used the student
languages are a big constituency for things like the "Quick" tutorial.
Also, Roger (
I think the only place we encourage users to not use that is the
teaching languages, right?
Robby
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> The below email transcript indicates that we're still having problems
> communicating how to use the language dialog to users. Maybe a
The below email transcript indicates that we're still having problems
communicating how to use the language dialog to users. Maybe a
screenshot in the "Quick" tutorial would help, although I think the
only real solution is to move to using #lang for everything.
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