> Such a cold community. :( > I give up. I'm sorry for bothering you with my bad english and stupidity, > I'll never post to this group again.
Hello! Whoa! I think you are reading a lot more aggression out of those replies than what actually exists. Your english is fine; no one has made a single remark about it. (Um, unless the previous sentence counts...) If it helps: the replies to this thread cover at least two or three separate things. 1. They've shown you how to set up DrRacket so it prints things the traditional Lisp way. If you adjust it in the language preference menu, values should print exactly as they would in a traditional Lisp. Have you been able to get this to work, or is the language preference menu not working for you? Changing the default should be about two or three mouse clicks, if I remember right. 2. Several people have given a justification for why the default in Racket prints things in a way that's different from what you're used to. The difference is not accidental: it's there by design. For example, you can see Section 3.3 of http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/fffkf-drscheme-journal/paper.pdf, as well as Section 2.1 of Wadler's "Why Calculating is Better than Scheming" (http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf) So there's been a lot of thought about this, and the default in Racket skews toward making it easier for students to think about calculating. Admittedly, this means that Racket's default printing behavior is deviating from traditional Lisps. But changing the default to Lisp style should be easy to do. Is that sufficient for you, or do you have a proposal? 3. There's a little bit of silliness on the thread because of the situation: it's not clear from the email thread that you realize that you're talking directly with several of the authors of DrRacket. You have got incredible access to them on this mailing list. Best of wishes to you! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users