Re: [racket-users] Syntax checker suggestion

2015-12-05 Thread brendan
On Saturday, December 5, 2015 at 12:36:50 PM UTC-5, Asumu Takikawa wrote: > On 2015-12-05 09:25:59 -0800, brendan wrote: > > Thanks Asumu. Yeah, I'm familiar with the binding concept. > > Ah, my apologies for overexplaining then. :) Not at all! When it comes to the syntax and evaluation models I

Re: [racket-users] Syntax checker suggestion

2015-12-05 Thread brendan
Thanks Asumu. Yeah, I'm familiar with the binding concept. I guess "free" means relative to some local expression context rather than in general, and that wasn't clear to me. But then a completely free identifier is an error, so maybe it should be clear. :) -- You received this message

Re: [racket-users] Syntax checker suggestion

2015-12-05 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2015-12-05 09:25:59 -0800, brendan wrote: > Thanks Asumu. Yeah, I'm familiar with the binding concept. Ah, my apologies for overexplaining then. :) > I guess "free" > means relative to some local expression context rather than in general, and > that wasn't clear to me. But then a completely

[racket-users] Syntax checker suggestion

2015-12-04 Thread brendan
I was messing around in DrRacket and started writing a macro. When I finished the first draft it gave me an error message saying that I can't use the _ wildcard in an expression context. I figured I had misremembered the format so I went to the syntax-parse docs... well, to shorten the story I

Re: [racket-users] Syntax checker suggestion

2015-12-04 Thread Asumu Takikawa
On 2015-12-04 08:02:40 -0800, brendan wrote: > ...Y'know, let me concentrated my obvious noobness in one post :) and ask a > silly question: why is "free-identifier=?" so named? It compares identifier > bindings, which obviously implies that the identifiers are not "free" at all. > I only got the