Re: [racket-dev] define-for-syntax optional/keyword arguments

2010-06-09 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:23:54 -0500, Casey Klein wrote: > `define-for-syntax' doesn't allow optional or keyword arguments, > although the documentation suggests it should. > > I tried to fix this myself, but I'm getting a mysterious compile error. > [...] > collects/racket/private/kw.rkt:708:46: com

[racket-dev] http://git.racket-lang.org/ error

2010-06-09 Thread Stephen De Gabrielle
Hi, the dev repository page linied from http://racket-lang.org/community.html is erroring (in ff 3.6.3) XML Parsing Error: not well-formed Location: http://git.racket-lang.org/ Line Number 7, Column 117:function padLeftStr(input,width,str){var prefix='';width-=input.toString().length;while(width>0

Re: [racket-dev] define-for-syntax optional/keyword arguments

2010-06-09 Thread Casey Klein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Tue, 8 Jun 2010 12:23:54 -0500, Casey Klein wrote: >> `define-for-syntax' doesn't allow optional or keyword arguments, >> although the documentation suggests it should. >> >> I tried to fix this myself, but I'm getting a mysterious compile

[racket-dev] discussion of the release

2010-06-09 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
The release of Racket has prompted some web discussion, which might be instructive to anyone thinking about our "marketing". On Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/Racket/duplicates/ccf0w/announcing_racket/ On Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411265 and http://news.ycombinator.com/ite

Re: [racket-dev] discussion of the release

2010-06-09 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
2010/6/9 Sam Tobin-Hochstadt : >  4. We should have a "Try Racket in the browser" link, like this: > http://tryruby.org/ Perhaps the IRC-bot thingie could be used as a starting point? -- Jens Axel Søgaard _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] [scribble] rendering syntax

2010-06-09 Thread John Clements
On Jun 9, 2010, at 5:05 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Eric Tanter wrote: >> Yes, Carl got my point right. And yes, that's like showing square brackets >> in the stepper ;) > > Right now, the two cases are slightly asymmetric, since there's a > syntax propert

[racket-dev] Bug site

2010-06-09 Thread Carl Eastlund
The top of the current bug report page currently says: "See the Racket site for up-to-date information, because PLT Scheme is now Racket. (Why?) This page is for compatiblity and historical reference only." We should probably have a bug report site that gives users a little more confidence. (Sor

Re: [racket-dev] Bug site

2010-06-09 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Jun 9, Carl Eastlund wrote: > (Sorry if this is old news and I missed that someone is already > working on it.) You did. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! __