Re: [racket-dev] python docstrings

2010-07-19 Thread Shriram Krishnamurthi
> (I was actually relieved when Matthias properly tied this back to Lisp > docstrings. If you had read the very next sentence of my original message, you'd have seen this line from me: (It sounds like the docstrings of Common Lisp.) Shriram _ F

Re: [racket-dev] python docstrings

2010-07-19 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Jul 19, John Clements wrote: > [...] a python-like feature [...] I wasn't familiar with Python's > docstrings, so I checked them out. [...] On Jul 19, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Python apparently has a feature [...] (I was actually relieved when Matthias properly tied this back to Lisp d

[racket-dev] python docstrings

2010-07-19 Thread John Clements
In the being-aware-of-your-competitors category: I was sitting in the first TSRJ lecture this morning, and Kathi was introducing the notion of the purpose statement. One teacher in the audience raised her hand, and asked whether DrRacket had a python-like feature where users could query the sys