[racket-dev] Fwd: [plt] Push #26418: master branch updated

2013-03-06 Thread Matthias Felleisen
This morning build failed like this: tools.scrbl:782:65: defproc: expected a result contract, found a string in: "\n" So I added a void? contract for the range. Begin forwarded message: > From: matth...@racket-lang.org > Subject: [plt] Push #26418: master branch updated > Date: March 6, 2

Re: [racket-dev] Fwd: [plt] Push #26418: master branch updated

2013-03-06 Thread Robby Findler
Thanks! On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > This morning build failed like this: > > tools.scrbl:782:65: defproc: expected a result contract, found a string > in: "\n" > > So I added a void? contract for the range. > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: matth...@r

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread Marijn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Mikel, On 06-03-13 04:05, mikel evins wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Eli Barzilay > wrote: >> But looking at it more deeply I certainly lose something -- I >> lose the ability to use source code for development, > > Come again? How do

[racket-dev] Trends in Functional Programming 2013: 3rd Call for Papers

2013-03-06 Thread Jay McCarthy
CALL FOR PAPERS 14th International Symposium Trends in Functional Programming 2013 Brigham Young University, Utah, U.S.A. May 14-16, 2013 http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay/conferences/20

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:23 AM, Marijn wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Mikel, > > On 06-03-13 04:05, mikel evins wrote: >> >> On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Eli Barzilay >> wrote: >>> But looking at it more deeply I certainly lose something -- I >>> lose the abili

[racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
I have the minimal things that I wanted in a working state now: * Links to the PDF versions next to the version. * A selection box for different versions of documents. * A google custom search. All of this is now visible on newdocs.racket-lang.org, but the older versions go to the right place o

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
Yesterday, Michael Wilber wrote: > The Google search box seems a bit disorienting to me. Perhaps I just > learned Racket, say yesterday, and it's unclear what it provides > that isn't searched by the search box in the top middle. It might be > nice to integrate that with the results page somehow, l

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Danny Yoo
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > I have the minimal things that I wanted in a working state now: > > * Links to the PDF versions next to the version. > > * A selection box for different versions of documents. > > * A google custom search. > > All of this is now visible on newd

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
A few minutes ago, Danny Yoo wrote: > > The other thing that would be nice is if the prior versions of the > docs also included these updates too, but if that can't happen > easily, oh well. Yes -- they all have that. It's just that the previous versions that are generated now are inaccessible..

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:54 AM, mikel evins wrote: > Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and more > apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source files are > somehow mutually exclusive. They're not. Adding the ability to save and load > images d

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Robby Findler
What about moving the google search to the search results page, saying something like "didn't find what you were looking for? Try a google-based search." instead of having two searches next to each other in a somewhat confusing way? (I think someone else made this suggestion; apologies if I missed

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > There's no practical way to unify the two searches since they are > implemented in a completely different way all the way to how the end > user interacts with them. Neither Racket's search nor Google's one report the racket/format module, sea

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
20 minutes ago, mikel evins wrote: > > Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and > more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and > source files are somehow mutually exclusive. They're not. Adding the > ability to save and load images does not subtract

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread Antonio Menezes Leitao
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:54 AM, mikel evins wrote: > > > Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and > more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source > files are somehow mutually exclusive. T

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Stephen Bloch wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:54 AM, mikel evins wrote: > >> Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and more >> apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and source files >> are somehow mutually exclusive

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > 20 minutes ago, mikel evins wrote: >> >> Rather than answer your questions directly, it seems much easier and >> more apropos to address the underlying assumption that images and >> source files are somehow mutually exclusive. They're not. Addi

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I like it. On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:59 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > I have the minimal things that I wanted in a working state now: > > * Links to the PDF versions next to the version. > > * A selection box for different versions of documents. > > * A google custom search. > > All of this is no

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
Four hours ago, mikel evins wrote: > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > > > > Aha -- in that case, it seems that your image-based workflow is > > not much different from working with just the sources *and* the > > (byte-) compiled files that go with them, right? > > Imagine me

Re: [racket-dev] using Racket to build an image-based Lisp: feasible?

2013-03-06 Thread mikel evins
On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > Um, no, I don't think that this is similar. Okay. _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Eli Barzilay
Four hours ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > I like it. It's up now, at docs.racket-lang.org . 8 hours ago, Robby Findler wrote: > What about moving the google search to the search results page, > saying something like "didn't find what you were looking for? Try a > google-based search." inst

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-06 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote: > They are already indexed, but it happens to be a very popular name so > there are tons of results before it. (Try searching for "stxparam" to > see that it works.) Ooops. You are right. I gave up too soon. _ Racke