Re: [racket] facebook campaign for "Bootstrap"

2010-11-15 Thread Grant Rettke
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > If you don't mind, "like it" on Facebook and spread the word. Here's the link: That is great. Done. _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

[racket] facebook campaign for "Bootstrap"

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Emmanuel Schanzer started a facebook campaign for Bootstrap, our educational outreach project for middle schools. The goal is to get 1000-people to like it by national education week. If you don't mind, "like it" on Facebook and spread the word. Here's the link: > [http://www.facebook.com/p

Re: [racket] Help re-writing a function recursively

2010-11-15 Thread YC
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Peter Breitsprecher wrote: > I have a program that is a simple reader. Reads the user input character > by character, and then creates a list of values. Right now it only works > with numbers, but i will add functionality for reading characters. Right > now it w

[racket] Help re-writing a function recursively

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Breitsprecher
I have a program that is a simple reader. Reads the user input character by character, and then creates a list of values. Right now it only works with numbers, but i will add functionality for reading characters. Right now it will work, and just accept the numbers and create the list which is gr

Re: [racket] Racket under Linux (ubuntu)

2010-11-15 Thread Michael Kuehn
scouic schrieb: > or : > - you must click and hold the click, then get off the mouse as if the > menu appeared. At this point, menu appears ... > - click and get off the mouse, menu appears > - use the keys ALT+F for example for the file No, that does not work here. But now I had success with: Kli

Re: [racket] iterative lazy space-safe or not?

2010-11-15 Thread Eli Barzilay
Four hours ago, Keiko Nakata wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > Is there some material (preferably something that I can refer to as > well), which supports this implementation? No, but there's some comments, and lots of history... > It looks clever. I'm not sure that it's a good term -- you've

[racket] Strange error message

2010-11-15 Thread Blythe, Kevin
I had a student get an error message about Preferences and the choices were "Steal lock & key" and "retry". I selected "Steal lock & key" and the message went away, but he lost some of his work. Anyone had this message before and can explain it? Kevin Blythe Aberdeen High School Teacher

Re: [racket] iterative lazy space-safe or not?

2010-11-15 Thread Keiko Nakata
Thanks for the reply. Is there some material (preferably something that I can refer to as well), which supports this implementation? It looks clever. Keiko From: Eli Barzilay Subject: Re: [racket] iterative lazy space-safe or not? Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:28:49 -0500 > 20 minutes ago, Kei

Re: [racket] expected at least one argument name after the function name

2010-11-15 Thread Stephen Bloch
On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Jim Wise wrote: > I've noticed that beginning student language does not allow definition > of a function which takes no arguments > It's not obvious to me why this is the case. I can sort of guess at the > reasoning, and it makes some sense -- such a function is

Re: [racket] Racket under Linux (ubuntu)

2010-11-15 Thread scouic
> > > By clicking the textes (i.e. "File") nothing happens, no menu appears. > I had the same problem, but it's ok : or : - you must click and hold the click, then get off the mouse as if the menu appeared. At this point, menu appears ... - click and get off the mouse, menu appears - use the keys

Re: [racket] iterative lazy space-safe or not?

2010-11-15 Thread Eli Barzilay
20 minutes ago, Keiko Nakata wrote: > Hi, > > In the post-finalization discussion on iterative lazy algorithms (SRFI 45), > (http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-45/post-mail-archive/msg00024.html) > Andre van Tonder points that Eli's proposal, > which I think is used in Racket roughly, is not memory sa

[racket] iterative lazy space-safe or not?

2010-11-15 Thread Keiko Nakata
Hi, In the post-finalization discussion on iterative lazy algorithms (SRFI 45), (http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-45/post-mail-archive/msg00024.html) Andre van Tonder points that Eli's proposal, which I think is used in Racket roughly, is not memory safe. But I do not get his point. (force (letrec