On Feb 22, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Danny Yoo wrote: >> -- I wrote a compiler >> -- I benefited from TR because ... >> -- And I need X Y and Z from R because pedestrian languages >> such as ML and Haskell don't support it > > I should add that I'm using other parts of Racket, like the web-server > package, to let me write automated tests on the prototype. A problem > that I need to deal with is: once I've generated some JavaScript, how > do I test it automatically with a real web browser's evaluator? I > want all my tests to be expressed in Racket, and I don't want to > depend on any external packages, such as Selenium. So I'm using > web-server to feed JavaScript and get back evaluated results back into > Racket. See: > > https://github.com/dyoo/js-sicp-5-5/blob/master/browser-evaluate.rkt > > and: > > https://github.com/dyoo/js-sicp-5-5/blob/master/test-browser-evaluate.rkt > > for a preliminary sketch.
Danny, 1. Thanks for playing along. Keep this response handy just in case you get ever asked why you did't just develop this compiler in a plain old, well-established statically typed language. The mix-and-match approach -- a good scriptable web-server that can be used from within the language -- and types when you need them is a nice sophisticated example of what we imagined. (I still want to see ML people do much better with Xexprs than strings.) 2. I am sorry for carrying out this dialog on 'users' I thought we were on 'dev' and wanted to take this as an opportunity to explain the rationale once again. Perhaps others have learned something anyway. -- Matthias _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
