Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Noel Welsh
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? There is nothing you can't do with a brave heart and a disassembler. In other words, I've

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Noel Welsh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: I was recently telling some people that I thought 'Ruby on Rails' was mostly an ORM plus a set of default dispatching rules with convenient ways of extending the defaults. I agree, though I don't have much RoR

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-28 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Jul 28, 2011 7:26 AM, Noel Welsh noelwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? There is nothing you

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-27 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On 2011-07-26 1:20 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote: I don't have a lot of expertise on the ORM side, but I think Snooze would probably be awesome and my MongoDB-backed structs may be helpful too. Is there a way of

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-27 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
On 2011-07-27 4:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: If you have a sufficiently powerful inspector, you can traverse any structure. In principle, you can even traverse closures this way, but no inspector with the needed power exists. See `struct-vector'. That sounds fantastic! Especially the

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-27 Thread Tony Garnock-Jones
On 2011-07-27 4:17 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: No such alchemy exists, it's just intended as part of the conceptual framework. Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would need to be changed as part of that work? No, `struct-vector' uses the

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-27 Thread Carl Eastlund
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt sa...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On 2011-07-27 4:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: If you have a sufficiently powerful inspector, you can traverse any structure.  In

Re: [racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-27 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Tony Garnock-Jones to...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: On 2011-07-27 4:17 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: No such alchemy exists, it's just intended as part of the conceptual framework. Would it be fair to say that were such a thing to come into existence, the VM would

[racket-dev] Racket on Rockets

2011-07-26 Thread Jay McCarthy
I was recently telling some people that I thought 'Ruby on Rails' was mostly an ORM plus a set of default dispatching rules with convenient ways of extending the defaults. I don't have a lot of expertise on the ORM side, but I think Snooze would probably be awesome and my MongoDB-backed structs