Hi Burke,

That's great to hear that you're considering something like that. Like Neil, 
I'm in the "easy" position of stating a wish.

Neil's description is pretty much what I have in mind. (maybe drawing the 
derivation tree bottom-up instead of left-to-right, but that's a detail)

-- Éric


On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Neil Toronto wrote:

> I'd like this, myself. I wouldn't be creating it, so that's easy to say.
> 
> I imagine something that behaves like `traces' but shows derivation trees 
> instead of expressions, and creates multiple nodes only when a judgment rule 
> is nondeterministic.
> 
> Neil
> 
> On 03/07/2012 02:15 PM, Burke Fetscher wrote:
>> Hi Eric -
>> 
>> Unfortunately there isn't a 'traces' equivalent for 'define-judgment-form' 
>> right now.  However, as someone who is working on related things in Redex I 
>> have had similar thoughts and think it's a great idea, so hopefully we will 
>> add it at some point in the future.  And if you have any further ideas about 
>> what you would want something like this to look like please send them my way.
>> 
>> Burke
>> 
>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:16 PM, Eric Tanter wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> As I'm enjoying the new `define-judgment-form' in Redex, I started to dream 
>>> about an equivalent of `traces' for `judgment-holds'.
>>> 
>>> I'm going to try to use Redex in a course based on Pierce's TAPL, and once 
>>> students see `traces' for reduction relations, they will be a bit 
>>> disappointed by the text-based output for typing derivations that one can 
>>> obtain by using `current-traced-metafunctions'.
>>> 
>>> Is there something like that already? if not, does it sound feasible?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> -- Éric
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