On Jan 15, 2015, at 10:56 AM, Daniel Bastos <dbas...@toledo.com> wrote:
> (*) Curiosity > > 1. I wonder what BS stands for in this definition. > > ; A BS is one of: > ; — "hello", > ; — "world", or > ; — pi. > > Is it just a synonym for nonsense? Nothing in particular but I should change it because of its bad connotation. The point of the section is to say "data definitions introduce names. What do these names stand for?" [Sets/collections/classes of data] > 2. I figure "MT" means "empty" because of how it sounds. Is that it? > > ; an empty scene: > (define MT (empty-scene 100 100)) MT is just a reasonable mnemonic here for 'empty scene'. > 3. I figure "posn" comes from the word "position". Is that it? Yeap. (It was named a long time ago and there is nothing we can do about it.) > > Thank you. > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
