[racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Everett Morse
I had some thoughts about Racket's documentation compared to PHP's last night, so this morning I wrote up a blog post about it. Here is the link: http://www.neptic.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-design-documentation/ Below, for your convenience, is the complete text copy-pasted in. Thanks, -Everett

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Everett Morse we...@unoc.net wrote: I had some thoughts about Racket's documentation compared to PHP's last night, so this morning I wrote up a blog post about it. Here is the link: http://www.neptic.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-design-documentation/ Below, for

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Neil Toronto
Jay McCarthy wrote: What do you think is missing from these tutorials: http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/index.html http://docs.racket-lang.org/more/index.html In particular, Quick tries to present the essence of the languages. Maybe the

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Eli Barzilay
[Sorry, I planned on some short and concrete description, but ended writing a blog-post-like piece of text... FWIW, I would love it if someone takes this on seriously.] On Sep 21, Everett Morse wrote: I had some thoughts about Racket's documentation compared to PHP's last night, so this

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: And a side-comment -- having an on-line documentation is probably going to make lots of people who follow the repository happy, since compiling it is where the biggest chunk of time is spent. No, no. See my comment. The improvements to the

[racket-dev] define-struct exports something to BSL

2010-09-21 Thread Nadeem Abdul Hamid
Consider a beginner file with: (define-struct boa (name length)) Student writes a template/function with parameter named a-boa, but misspells one occurrence, writing boa instead of a-boa. (define (feed a-boa) (make-boa (boa-name a-boa) (boa-length boa))) Their tests then fail

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-21 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Sep 21, Matthias Felleisen wrote: On Sep 21, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote: And a side-comment -- having an on-line documentation is probably going to make lots of people who follow the repository happy, since compiling it is where the biggest chunk of time is spent. No, no.