[racket-users] Racket News - Issue 53

2021-08-17 Thread Paulo Matos
Hi all, Here's another Racket News Issue... Counting 53 now! :) Enjoy! https://racket-news.com/2021/08/racket-news-issue-53.html Paulo Matos -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving

[racket-users] Doc pages search engine difficulties

2021-08-17 Thread Dexter Lagan
Hello there, I'm trying to teach one of my coworkers how to search for function names in the Racket manual, and I'm having serious problems finding very simple things, such as the function to display the file browser dialog (get-file). I know most function names by heart but my coworker

Re: [racket-users] Doc pages search engine difficulties

2021-08-17 Thread Sorawee Porncharoenwase
But content search is also unsatisfactory in many situations. As an example, take a look at Python’s documentation, which has the content search. I searched for “list” ( https://docs.python.org/3/search.html?q=list_keywords=yes=default), hoping to find the documentation for the list function, and

Re: [racket-users] Doc pages search engine difficulties

2021-08-17 Thread Sorawee Porncharoenwase
FWIW, you can use Google to do that. The search query site:docs.racket-lang.org file browser dialog shows https://docs.racket-lang.org/mrlib/Path_Dialog.html as the first search result. The page also has a link to get-file and put-file. On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 7:34 AM Dexter Lagan wrote: >

Re: [racket-users] Doc pages search engine difficulties

2021-08-17 Thread Jens Axel Søgaard
Den tir. 17. aug. 2021 kl. 16.34 skrev Dexter Lagan : > Hello there, > > I'm trying to teach one of my coworkers how to search for function names > in the Racket manual, and I'm having serious problems finding very simple > things, such as the function to display the file browser dialog

Re: [racket-users] Doc pages search engine difficulties

2021-08-17 Thread Dexter Lagan
Thank you very much for the thorough explanation. It makes sense. I’ll be sharing the cheat sheet with my coworkers. It sure is a good starting point. Dex > On Aug 17, 2021, at 9:40 PM, Jens Axel Søgaard wrote: > >  >> Den tir. 17. aug. 2021 kl. 16.34 skrev Dexter Lagan : > >> Hello

Re: [racket-users] Re: Is this "inside out" macro technique common?

2021-08-17 Thread Ryan Kramer
Thank you! `splice` is indeed the essential primitive here, so it's nice to see it extracted and named properly. The difference between eval-syntax and syntax-local-eval is good to know also. I think there is a bug in the documentation (or maybe in Racket) because when I try