Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-12-02 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
LGTM, but I should note that I already accepted Philip’s earlier suggestion. If you want to make further changes, go for it! John > On Nov 30, 2018, at 06:25, Greg Hendershott wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:58 AM Robby Findler > wrote: >> What about using the function >> >> (lambda

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-30 Thread Greg Hendershott
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 5:58 AM Robby Findler wrote: > What about using the function > > (lambda (x) (and x #true)) > > And putting a short discussion of truthy and a link to elsewhere in the docs? Yeah. I feel like the `filter-map` doc would be fine with just that change. Already it tells you

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-30 Thread Robby Findler
What about using the function (lambda (x) (and x #true)) And putting a short discussion of truthy and a link to elsewhere in the docs? Robby On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 11:17 PM Philip McGrath wrote: > I can do it. > > -Philip > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:17 PM John Clements > wrote: > >> I

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-29 Thread Philip McGrath
I can do it. -Philip On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 5:17 PM John Clements wrote: > I like your idea better than mine. Do you have time to make it a pull > request? If not, I’ll do it. > > John > > > On Nov 29, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Philip McGrath > wrote: > > > > I would find `true?` confusing, since

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-29 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
I like your idea better than mine. Do you have time to make it a pull request? If not, I’ll do it. John > On Nov 29, 2018, at 2:08 PM, Philip McGrath wrote: > > I would find `true?` confusing, since it really means "truthy." For example, > in Rackunit, `check-not-false` has this behavior,

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-29 Thread Philip McGrath
I would find `true?` confusing, since it really means "truthy." For example, in Rackunit, `check-not-false` has this behavior, whereas `check-true` checks that the result is really `eq?` to `#t`. Personally, I think it might be better to clarify the documentation with more prose, rather than

Re: [racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-29 Thread Gustavo Massaccesi
This function is a already defined in a few libraries and it is called `true?` for example in https://docs.racket-lang.org/predicates/index.html?q=true#%28def._%28%28lib._predicates%2Fmain..rkt%29._true~3f%29%29 I think that `not-false?` is easier to understand, but `true?` is more idiomatic.

[racket-users] minor doc change proposal?

2018-11-29 Thread 'John Clements' via Racket Users
This stack overflow post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53543191/what-is-the-different-between-filter-and-filter-map/53545115#53545115 … is written by someone confused by the documentation for `filter-map`. I went and read the documentation, and *I* was confused for about 30 seconds. I