Thank you for writing this.
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 11:49 AM Matthew Flatt wrote:
> Possible Language Changes
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> The Racket community has long discussed possibilities for Racket2. Here
> are a few potential changes from the wish list:
I like this list of changes. I'
As a procedural matter, I think that the Github repository is a great
way to communicate about specific ideas in way that ideas stay
connected and don't get forgotten.
https://github.com/racket/racket2-rfcs/
Right now, basically all of the discussion is in the issues, as people
work together to g
Let's keep this light and fun, especially for the implementor, who
shouldn't be bogged down with parens-or-die commentry. How about treating
it as yet another #lang, albeit one of interest as core members have an
itch to scratch. Let's cross the bridge of moving docs/website/drastic
stuff when ther
Hi Matthew,
As someone who (unintentionally) caused maybe some of the debate to get
out of hand (or did I?) I would like to open by saying that both your
last email to the prior thread and also this email are both very
encouraging.
I'll skip everything else and jump straight to:
Matthew Flatt wr
Matthew Flatt wrote on 7/20/19 2:49 PM:
We need concrete examples to discuss the possibility of changing syntax,
potential roadmaps to see whether there's anywhere we want to go, and so on.
Procedural suggestions people might want to do:
* There's a lot of prior work, and it might really help
At Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:55:03 -0400, Greg Hendershott wrote:
> [...]
> I think it would be a mistake to skip this discussion.
Agreed, so I'll offer my take on these specific questions, at least if
you'll humor my read of "more popular" as "lower barrier".
At Tue, 16 Jul 2019 21:55:03 -0400, Greg H
This message is intended as a prose form of what I said at RacketCon,
but it includes some extra explanation triggered by the discussion so
far. Where that happens, I apologize that it isn't in the form of a
more direct response in the original thread.
The Racket2 Idea
Racket's d
FWIW, I *might* very soon be making such an editable table/spreadsheet
widget that scales to large data and supports various types, and in a
cross-platform way. (Without hitting various limits of some platform
native widgets as used by Racket's GUI layer. I recently looked at a
few related pa
Just to be clear, YouTube is clearly a very pragmatic way to make the
RacketCon videos most accessible to people, and I'm very glad it's done.
Many people will stream the videos through YouTube, and (thanks to
"youtube-dl.org") it's currently also an easy way to distribute the data
to various
There is also the spreadsheet-editor package, but I haven’t used it yet
https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/spreadsheet-editor
Let us know how you get on
Kind regards
Stephen
On Sat, 20 Jul 2019 at 05:13, Travis Hinkelman
wrote:
> Hi Raoul,
>
> Matthias Felleisen is working on a Racket impl
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