Re: [racket-users] Why would writing to a pipe fail?

2021-06-22 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Fri, 18 Jun 2021 05:29:14 -0400, George Neuner wrote: > My point was that the docs for write-bytes-avail et al specifically > mention "flush" of data, and in a way that implies (to me) that there is > expected to be something else underlying the buffer to "flush" to, e.g., > storage media,

Re: [racket-users] Could Racket be used as a "frontend" for a non-Racket language?

2021-06-22 Thread Sage Gerard
Short answer: Yes...ish. I wrote a few code generation programs. It can happen, but the Racket program would be dependent on the target language's toolchain and standard library. Before we get to that, note that not all languages cleanly translate into one another (Some scripting languages

Re: [racket-users] Could Racket be used as a "frontend" for a non-Racket language?

2021-06-22 Thread D. Ben Knoble
No idea if this is what you're looking for, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be terribly difficult to design a #lang where modules were programs that, when run, output C# code (kind of like how scribble & pollen can output HTML). Then you could have a language (w/ or w/o) macros that gets run

Re: [racket-users] An Apology

2021-06-22 Thread Yury Bulka
Thank you, Siddhartha Kasivajhula, for expressing this. I am an "ordinary" Racket user - I don't hack on Racket itself, I don't even create DSLs (yet). But I care about Racket a lot, I tell people about it, I write software in it, and I even contributed a small feature to a racket package. I was