[racket-users] does handin-server really need racket/gui/base?

2019-08-16 Thread 'Wayne Harris' via Racket Users
I tried the handin-server on a Windows computer and it worked just fine. Now I'm trying it on a headless UNIX system and, upon first run, I got: $ racket -l handin-server Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Gtk initialization failed for display ":0" context...:

[racket-users] Re: Improved synchronous concurrency example for rosettacode.org ?

2019-08-16 Thread Brian Adkins
On Friday, August 16, 2019 at 6:46:14 PM UTC-4, Brian Adkins wrote: > > I went ahead and added my version to the Racket section w/ some subtle > changes from my original post. I'm happy to edit it if necessary. > > https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Synchronous_concurrency#Racket > > I added a note

[racket-users] Re: Improved synchronous concurrency example for rosettacode.org ?

2019-08-16 Thread Brian Adkins
I went ahead and added my version to the Racket section w/ some subtle changes from my original post. I'm happy to edit it if necessary. https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Synchronous_concurrency#Racket I added a note above my entry re: using thread mailboxes, and I added a note above the existing

[racket-users] Improved synchronous concurrency example for rosettacode.org ?

2019-08-16 Thread Brian Adkins
The current Racket example for Synchronous Concurrency seems a little verbose and overly complicated: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Synchronous_concurrency#Racket What do you think of the following example instead? Brian Adkins --- snip --- (define (reader) (for ([line (in-lines

Re: [racket-users] See expanded code?

2019-08-16 Thread Neil Van Dyke
One nice interactive way is with the Macro Stepper feature in DrRacket, which is easy to use once you know the button to start it. Sometimes it helps to copy, into a new file, the minimal usage of a macro you're interested in, and just expand that. Also:

[racket-users] See expanded code?

2019-08-16 Thread Josh Rubin
I always try to understand things from the bottom up. How can I see the expansion of things likeĀ  (match ...)? More generally, how do Racket developers look at the internal forms of programs? -- Josh Rubin jlru...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[racket-users] Racket News - Issue 14

2019-08-16 Thread Paulo Matos
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