Re: [racket-dev] Compile Error (Everett Morse)

2010-10-13 Thread Everett Morse
of patience so I'm posting this and taking off to school. Thanks for the help! -Everett At Tue, 12 Oct 2010 20:55:00 -0600, Everett Morse wrote: I decided to try compiling Racket on my home desktop again. With futures disabled I get a different error. I am on a 32-bit mac, so maybe things

Re: [racket-dev] alt-exp syntax

2010-10-12 Thread Everett Morse
application looks. Thanks, -Everett Morse p.s. Implementation of alt-exp available at http://www.neptic.com/np/software/alt-exp.php -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Everett Sent: 26 August 2010 20:10 To: plt-dev

Re: [racket-dev] =?

2010-10-06 Thread Everett Morse
Would this mean equal?, eq?, =, or what? I suppose it would make sense to be =? since the others have a question mark, but I'd almost prefer it to be equal? just to save me some typing. (In fact, maybe I'll bind it to that myself ...). I imagine that this kind of confusion is, or is related

Re: [racket-dev] stepper UI question

2010-10-06 Thread Everett Morse
I was just trying to debug a program today that goes through a series of complex macros. I used Check Syntax so I can see what variables are bound where (some of which are syntax variables), and when I got stuck I wanted to see how the macro reduces. I clicked the macro stepper, and it spun

[racket-dev] Compile Error

2010-09-27 Thread Everett Morse
Is there something wrong with my build? This happens when I remove everything from my build directory AND with a fresh repository (so it's not something weird I did). I tried a pull on Fri, Sat, and today (Mon), and get this error still. (Using the command git clone

Re: [racket-dev] Racket documentation

2010-09-25 Thread Everett Morse
Comments on the below discussion and possible implementation ideas. User-contributed comments should be annotations to the documentation. They could then be fetched using JS (Ajax) from the local copy when an internet connection is available, and if there is no internet connection the

[racket-dev] Racket build error

2010-09-25 Thread Everett Morse
What is this error: gcc -m32 -I./.. -I../../../racket/src/../include -arch i386 -Wall -DOS_X -D_DARWIN_UNLIMITED_SELECT -pthread -fno-common -c ../../../racket/src/future.c -o future.o ../../../racket/src/future.c: In function ‘scheme_future_block_until_gc’:

[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] P4P: A Syntax Proposal

2010-07-29 Thread Everett Morse
On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: Responding to Everett's suggestion: I don't understand why not write a lexer, since replacing do: () with {} is the most natural and readable thing to do. I really don't want to touch the lexer level. Until this morning, I

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

2010-07-29 Thread Everett Morse
On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Michael Sperber sper...@deinprogramm.de wrote: Well, except for a bunch of renamings (... in the direction of ... Common Lisp ...?), that doesn't really show yet. I'm not going to repeat what I've