Re: [racket-dev] 2htdp/image Feature Suggestion

2014-06-29 Thread Jos Koot
Thanks. I always use DrRacket for editing racket code. Jos. > -Original Message- > From: Greg Hendershott [mailto:greghendersh...@gmail.com] > Sent: domingo, 29 de junio de 2014 5:55 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: dev; jja.k...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] 2htdp/image

Re: [racket-dev] 2htdp/image Feature Suggestion

2014-06-23 Thread Jos Koot
tes, 24 de junio de 2014 2:12 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: Asumu Takikawa; Kevin Forchione; dev@racket-lang.org; > jja.k...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] 2htdp/image Feature Suggestion > > I think that the prefer-define-over-let applies only to the first let > in this program. >

Re: [racket-dev] 2htdp/image Feature Suggestion

2014-06-23 Thread Jos Koot
In the recommendations of http://docs.racket-lang.org/style/index.html it is recommended to use (internal or module top-level) define rather than named let. I use named let a lot. How would you rewrite the following? For me it is rather difficult to make the change without loosing track of the scop

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

2012-07-02 Thread Jos Koot
May be the discussion goes beyond my understanding, in which case sorry for my noise. Where I need a value distinct from all other values (such as a no-value), I prepare an empty struct type and export one single instance of this struct together with its predicate (and nothing else) Jos _

Re: [racket-dev] Subnormal numbers?

2011-11-29 Thread Jos Koot
Normally I only read messages of this list. Now I feel I have to reply. I have seen various floating point systems. Some of them would immediately force an abort when forming an overflow or underflow. Others would abort only after referring to underflowed or overflowed floating point (with trouble

Re: [racket-dev] [racket-bug] all/11778: check syntax does not workwith path-up

2011-08-17 Thread Jos Koot
+1, jos -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Felleisen Sent: miƩrcoles, 17 de agosto de 2011 22:34 To: Racket Dev Subject: Re: [racket-dev] [racket-bug] all/11778: check syntax does not workwith path-up On Aug 17

Re: [racket-dev] intro videos

2011-07-13 Thread Jos Koot
I enjoyed your videos. Very nice. Can you do something about the missing menu bar? Also had a look to the first two videos of the computer science section of khanacademy.org. The second one, because it is not functional, immediately has to discern objects from copies of objects, which seems a very

Re: [racket-dev] interactive hack

2011-07-10 Thread Jos Koot
For racket? jOS -Original Message- From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Eli Barzilay Sent: domingo, 10 de julio de 2011 19:52 To: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt; rafk...@cs.utah.edu; dev@racket-lang.org Subject: Re: [racket-dev] interactive hack Ok, `4

Re: [racket-dev] racket vs. scheme vs. clojure (as it appears to others)

2011-05-06 Thread Jos Koot
> -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Bellani snip > -- > Eduardo Bellani > > omnia mutantur, nihil interit. The word 'omnia' frequently leads to contradictions, particularly when applying a sentence conta

Re: [racket-dev] Inline caching (was Re: my '312' this semester, how we compare to others)

2011-05-04 Thread Jos Koot
> -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Felleisen > Sent: 04 May 2011 22:58 > To: Tony Garnock-Jones; D Herring > Cc: dev List > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] Inline caching (was Re: my '312' > this semester,how

Re: [racket-dev] Alpha-equivalence for Racket

2011-03-25 Thread Jos Koot
I suppose Check Syntax already does alpha conversion. Anyway it distinguishes between different bindings of the same identifier, Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Carl Eastlund > Sent: 25 March 2011 19:52 > To

Re: [racket-dev] Wikipedia on macros... sigh

2011-03-11 Thread Jos Koot
My main admiration is for Shriram Krishnamurthi of course. But JohnClements gave me the pointer. Hence also credit for him. Jos _ From: Gregory Woodhouse [mailto:gregwoodho...@me.com] Sent: 11 March 2011 20:21 To: John Clements; Shriram Krishnamurthi Cc: Jos Koot; 'PLT Devel

Re: [racket-dev] Wikipedia on macros... sigh

2011-03-11 Thread Jos Koot
Brown University Paper on Automata Macros (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-automata-macro s/) of Shriram Krishnamurthi is an excellent addition. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Jo

Re: [racket-dev] Packaging

2011-02-18 Thread Jos Koot
I read your contribution with great interest. One problem that is not addressed, as far as I have seen, is that any idiot, like me, can install his/her contributions (modules/collections/packages or whatever) For a simple windows 7 user as I it is rather difficult to use command line instructions.

Re: [racket-dev] irrelevant open problem reports

2011-02-17 Thread Jos Koot
Thanks to you and all other members of PLT. Jos > -Original Message- > From: robby.find...@gmail.com > [mailto:robby.find...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robby Findler > Sent: 17 February 2011 14:54 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: PLT Developers > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] ir

Re: [racket-dev] irrelevant open problem reports

2011-02-17 Thread Jos Koot
robby.find...@gmail.com > [mailto:robby.find...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robby Findler > Sent: 16 February 2011 22:30 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: PLT Developers > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] irrelevant open problem reports > > Thanks! > > I went back over these and closed all of them

[racket-dev] irrelevant open problem reports

2011-02-16 Thread Jos Koot
A problem report query with originator "Jos Koot" shows 10 open PRs. As far as I can judge, all off them are already fixed or otherwise answered in a satisfying way. As far as I am concerned, they can be closed. Now I am enjoying 5.0.1.2. Thanks to the whole PLT !!

Re: [racket-dev] Fwd: [racket-bug] drscheme/11585 impossible to enabletest suite coverage in main language

2011-02-04 Thread Jos Koot
It's ok on my windows 7 system. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of John Clements > Sent: 04 February 2011 02:20 > To: PLT Developers > Subject: [racket-dev] Fwd: [racket-bug] drscheme/11585 > impossible to ena

Re: [racket-dev] racket-lang down?

2011-01-21 Thread Jos Koot
I can't enter racket-lang.org either. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of John Clements > Sent: 20 January 2011 00:44 > To: plt-dev Developers > Subject: [racket-dev] racket-lang down? > > It looks like racket-l

Re: [racket-dev] (round), etc. in Typed Racket

2010-12-14 Thread Jos Koot
I was not thinking of unsafe operations. Jos > -Original Message- > From: Vincent St-Amour [mailto:stamo...@ccs.neu.edu] > Sent: 13 December 2010 18:11 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: 'Vincent St-Amour'; 'Noel Welsh'; dev@racket-lang.org > Subject: Re: [rac

Re: [racket-dev] (round), etc. in Typed Racket

2010-12-13 Thread Jos Koot
> -Original Message- > From: Vincent St-Amour [mailto:stamo...@ccs.neu.edu] > Sent: 13 December 2010 17:01 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: 'Noel Welsh'; dev@racket-lang.org > Subject: Re: [racket-dev] (round), etc. in Typed Racket > > At Mon, 13 Dec 201

Re: [racket-dev] (round), etc. in Typed Racket

2010-12-13 Thread Jos Koot
forced to produce an approximation (as in (sqrt 2)). When it comes to efficiency, flonums may be preferred, but it is not difficult to enforce a function to do all its computations with flonums. Jos > -Original Message----- > From: Noel Welsh [mailto:noelwe...@gmail.com] > Sent: 13 De

Re: [racket-dev] (round), etc. in Typed Racket

2010-12-13 Thread Jos Koot
Does this also mean that procedures like round, floor and ceiling will produce exact integers even when given an inexact argument? I am not sure this would be a good idea. For example consider: Now (round #i1e200) -> flonum of 64 bits. But (inexact->exact (round #i1e200)) -> exact integer of over 6

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] Exploratory programming?

2010-12-01 Thread Jos Koot
Under windows 7 premium home, this does show up with internet explorer but not with firefox. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Felleisen > Sent: 02 December 2010 04:21 > To: Eli Barzilay > Cc: lukejor

Re: [racket-dev] How about adding this simple list-shuffling procedure to racket?

2010-11-11 Thread Jos Koot
When truly picking uniformally shuffled lists from a given list, see: http://telefonica.net/web2/koot/natural-to-permutation.scm and try (require srfi/27) ; for random-integer (require "natural-to-permutation.scm") (let* ((lst (build-list 1000 (lambda (k) (round (quotient k 10) (

Re: [racket-dev] `cond' / `when' / `unless' / etc bodies

2010-10-12 Thread Jos Koot
Thanks. In lacked to see the introduction of this feature. I checked and it works (OF COURSE) Jos > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Flatt [mailto:mfl...@cs.utah.edu] > Sent: 12 October 2010 16:40 > To: Jos Koot > Cc: dev@racket-lang.org > Subject: Re: [racket-d

Re: [racket-dev] `cond' / `when' / `unless' / etc bodies

2010-10-12 Thread Jos Koot
We already have begin-with-definitions. Would there be a great penalty to simply wrap every body-like sequence of expressions and definitions with begin-with-definitions? The latter even allows more freedom than (let () def ... expr ...), for it allows (begin-with-definitions def-or-expr ...). I am

Re: [racket-dev] `cond' / `when' / `unless' / etc bodies

2010-10-10 Thread Jos Koot
+1, In macro definitions that produce code with bodies, I almost by routine write (let () etc ...) There may be a problem including the bodies of begin forms, for they may be lifted out. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org]

Re: [racket-dev] alt-exp syntax

2010-08-26 Thread Jos Koot
One of the examples reads: {lambda: [x] x(x)} (lambda: [x] x(x)) Notice the curly brackets in the first line. I am not sure I like this. Nevertheless a nice idea to use colons in order to reduce the number of parentheses. Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mai

Re: [racket-dev] can racket-lang.org survive a slashdotting?

2010-08-01 Thread Jos Koot
I think loosing schemecookbook is a loss. Indeed it no longer responds adequately. Sad Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Neil Van Dyke > Sent: 01 August 2010 18:54 > To: Racket Dev List > Subject: [racket-dev]

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

2010-07-28 Thread Jos Koot
With a good editor, like that of DrSceme, pardon me, RdRacket, I experience no difficulty at all with parentheses. In fact I hardly see them. DrRacket shows me the extent of a subsexpr very micely. I would have, may be, a problem when parsing symbolic expressions lacking parenteses, unless, of cour

Re: [racket-dev] multiple key-press

2010-07-22 Thread Jos Koot
I don't want to initiate a war. However, I want to say that Matthias does understand at least part of his audience, me included, I am sure. Here I must admit I probably am not a standard specimen of his audience. On the racket users list many people gave me very good advice, including both you and

[racket-dev] srfi41 for racket

2010-07-19 Thread Jos Koot
l. There is no reason to wrap it in a promise. 3: A stream-pair could be a promise that yieds a pair, but it could also be a pair whose cdr is a promise. There is no reason to wrap a pair of promises in another promise. Your comments/critics/advises are welcome. Thanks, Jos Hartelijke groe

Re: [racket-dev] TeachScheme! wikipedia page update

2010-06-16 Thread Jos Koot
You did not mention yourself as first author of HtDP. Do you want me to add your name? Jos > -Original Message- > From: dev-boun...@racket-lang.org > [mailto:dev-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of Matthias Felleisen > Sent: 16 June 2010 20:00 > To: John Clements > Cc: plt edu; plt-dev