Re: [racket] Preventing get-impure-port from url-encoding the query

2013-07-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
Regardless of specs, it's useful to be able to talk to servers even when they're misbehaving. A nice possible way to deal with this is to expose some more primitive layer using raw strings. Two days ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: > This debate is bigger than you and me, but I don't see a spec > here.

Re: [racket] Wasting Time?

2013-07-13 Thread grant centauri
sorry matthias and steve, you'll get this twice, but i emailed the list from the wrong address... i agree with the above comments, but you also could check out Douglas Rushkoff's "Program or Be Programmed". In the tradition of Marshall McLuhan's concept of "the medium is the message", understandi

Re: [racket] Splicing `values' in-place

2013-07-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two days ago, Laurent wrote: > > I guess Scribble would be happy to use such splicing values. It already does that with nested list structures. (And IMO it's cleaner to use lists as containers for random pacakging of values rather than multiple values which is more natural for distinct roles of

Re: [racket] Splicing `values' in-place

2013-07-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two days ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Your uses of values are covered in apply/map/append/list > trickeries. Using values might be more elegant, but yes, it's > currently not possible. Not possible, but as usual, easy to play with (if you're willing to pay the runtime overhead). Since it's

Re: [racket] Splicing `values' in-place

2013-07-13 Thread Eli Barzilay
Two days ago, Jay McCarthy wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Stephan Houben wrote: > > Hi Jay, > > > > So what about keyword return values? Both because of symmetry and > > because getting three return values straight is just as hard as > > getting three arguments straight. > > That's ol

Re: [racket] Splicing `values' in-place

2013-07-13 Thread Jay McCarthy
I just wrote a blog post about this code, in case it is unclear how it works http://jeapostrophe.github.io/2013-07-15-values-post.html On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Stephan Houben wrote: > I am deeply impressed. > > Python's Guido van Rossum is often suspected of owning a time machine, > but