Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:28:25PM -0600, Richard Cleis wrote: > "Lurking thresholds" are fun: The Lurker at the Threshold is, of course, a classic horror story written by August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft. -- hendrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-25 Thread Richard Cleis
"Lurking thresholds" are fun: I used pre-Racket to read files of numerical data, created by different agencies across the country. The code looked for something that looked like a date (out of about 10 formats), and moved on from there to read a few hundred lines of gradually changing groups

Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 08:59:50PM +0100, Jos Koot wrote: > Hi > > In all computer languages it is more difficult to read data than to write > them, I think. Perhaps because when you write data you know what you are writing and are in control. But when you are reading, who knows what might be

RE: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-24 Thread Jos Koot
] On Behalf Of rom cgb Sent: jueves, 24 de marzo de 2016 13:38 To: Racket Users Subject: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful A possible case study: there a scanf procedure in slib, a pseudo standard library for Scheme[1][2]. It does mutate the passed arguments like with C's scanf which i think

Re: [racket-users] Re: IO in racket is painful

2016-03-24 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Right, that's the library that I borrowed for the code I posted. Fortunately the code didn't need to mutate pairs so it seems to work. Sam On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 8:38 AM rom cgb wrote: > A possible case study: there a scanf procedure in slib, a pseudo standard > library