Re: [racket-dev] Proposal for a no-argument

2012-07-19 Thread D Herring
On 07/01/2012 09:27 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: There rare cases where it is useful to have a value that means that no argument was passed to a function. In many of these cases there is a plain value that is used as that mark, with the most idiomatic one being #f, but sometimes others are used.

Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 release branch doesn't build

2012-07-19 Thread Robby Findler
I looked at this a little bit and it appears to be a bug in version/utils, specifically the version-integer function is not working correctly for the release version number. Robby On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Aleksej Saushev a...@inbox.ru wrote: Hello, Racket 5.3 release branch doesn't

Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 release branch doesn't build

2012-07-19 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: I looked at this a little bit and it appears to be a bug in version/utils, specifically the version-integer function is not working correctly for the release version number. Sorry, I forgot to push a version fix on the release branch -- done now. But note

Re: [racket-dev] Racket 5.3 release branch doesn't build

2012-07-19 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks, Eli. (I agree that version-integer's current behavior is the right one.) Robby On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Two hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: I looked at this a little bit and it appears to be a bug in version/utils, specifically the

[racket-dev] racket/gui performance problem when using lots of items in table-panels

2012-07-19 Thread Marijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been having some performance problems when using lots of items in table-panels[1]. Switching tabs when running the following example exhibits the problem. Can anything be done about it? Marijn #lang racket/gui ;(require (planet

[racket-dev] contract error message in 'system'

2012-07-19 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Someone ran across something like the below and shared it with me: (system x\0y) system: contract violation expected: (or/c (and/c string? (lambda (s) (not (memv #\nul (string-list s) (and/c bytes? (lambda (bs) (not (memv 0 (bytes-list bs)) given: x\uy

Re: [racket-dev] racket/gui performance problem when using lots of items in table-panels

2012-07-19 Thread Doug Williams
I think the problem is the time it takes to create 600 buttons in this case, not the time needed to switch between the tabs. I'm not sure why you are recreating them each refresh. Am I missing something? Doug On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Marijn hk...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[racket-dev] props script

2012-07-19 Thread Robby Findler
Does anyone know what this means from the props script? [robby@yanpu] ~/git/plt/collects/meta$ ./props Root: /Users/robby/git/plt/... .DS_Store: no responsible DrRacket.app: no responsible GRacket.app: no responsible PLT Games.app: no responsible Racket Documentation.app: no responsible

[racket-dev] Planning for RacketCon 2012

2012-07-19 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
We're planning on holding the second version of RacketCon at Northeastern in Boston this fall. This will be a one-day event, featuring both short talks and tutorials. To choose a date that works for the most people, we need your feedback. Here: http://www.doodle.com/6fk3avrf2vypici5 is a quick

[racket-dev] Official PLaneT account?

2012-07-19 Thread Asumu Takikawa
Hi all, I heard rumours that there was once an official PLT PLaneT account intended for packages maintained by the dev team. Does anyone know if it exists and how to go about getting access to it? I was thinking that it'd be more appropriate to put the 'parser-combinator' and 'tex2page' packages