Re: [racket] Trouble using make-base-eval

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Chang
Here is another patch, with Ryan's suggestion. If no one has any objections, I will push tomorrow. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > What was unsatisfactory about your last patch, aside from Ryan's suggestion? > > Sam > > On Mar 3, 2014 8:46 PM, "Stephen Chang" wrote

[racket] Embedding Racket raco ctool --c-mods

2014-03-04 Thread Cody Eilar
Hello, I recently downloaded racket 6 on my linux machine and built it from source. I attempted to run the command "raco ctool --c-mods base.c ++lib racket/base" and I got an error that said that ++lib is an unknown flag. I then found that this was an issue back in 2010 after digging around in

Re: [racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread Stephen Chang
> My next step is to try to built it from source, but it’ll be tricky, because > this machine doesn’t have very much ram. CPUS=1 is probably my friend here. You could also try using a swapfile: $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=64M count=16 16+0 records in 16+0 records out 1073741824 bytes

Re: [racket] Exact Infinity?

2014-03-04 Thread Neil Toronto
This is a good point. Do you need the first countable ordinal ω ("omega"), or an object introduced by a compactification of a topological space? My proposal was for adding the latter. They're different kinds of infinities, with different properties. For example, there's no -ω. (Well, unless yo

Re: [racket] Exact Infinity?

2014-03-04 Thread Neil Toronto
It was on [racket-bug], so it's kind of hard to find. Here it is: http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=14232 Search for "Neil" on the page. I think +inf and -inf could be added to the numeric tower with little to no effect on current programs. There would be no +nan, not only for

Re: [racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread John Clements
On Mar 4, 2014, at 6:36 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > At Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:19:47 -0800, John Clements wrote: >> I’d like to run racket 6 on a 64-bit Debian 7 VPS (that I have with linode). >> It appears to me that our pre-built binaries rely on libc 2.14, and that the >> current stable Debian (I

Re: [racket] Exact Infinity?

2014-03-04 Thread Robby Findler
I think that Neil \bot posted on this subject in this forum at some point with a fairly optimistic message. Robby On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 11:54 AM, J. Ian Johnson wrote: > It's a bit of a philosophical problem to have an "exact" infinity. Writing > your own such wrappers should not be too much

Re: [racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread Robby Findler
Is Wheezy the version of Debian we are talking about? http://plt.eecs.northwestern.edu/snapshots/ Robby On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Eric Dong wrote: > IDK though, Debian stable is very popular. I would suggest somebody should > build a package for it and upload it to racket-lang.org > >

Re: [racket] Exact Infinity?

2014-03-04 Thread J. Ian Johnson
It's a bit of a philosophical problem to have an "exact" infinity. Writing your own such wrappers should not be too much work. I've done similar constructions in my own work in analysis, simply using the symbol 'ω for infinity. -Ian - Original Message - From: "Max New" To: users@racket-l

[racket] Exact Infinity?

2014-03-04 Thread Max New
I've been doing some work that uses a data structure that includes a size that can be either a Natural number of Infinity ,a so-called "extended natural number". I've been using +inf.0 and gotten by using `<` and `infinite?` and things have worked fine out of the box but now I need to take the min

[racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread Eric Dong
IDK though, Debian stable is very popular. I would suggest somebody should build a package for it and upload it to racket-lang.org On Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Matthew Flatt > wrote: > At Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:19:47 -0800, John Clements wrote: > > I’d like to run racket 6 on a 64-bit Debian 7 VPS (tha

Re: [racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Mon, 3 Mar 2014 23:19:47 -0800, John Clements wrote: > I’d like to run racket 6 on a 64-bit Debian 7 VPS (that I have with linode). > It appears to me that our pre-built binaries rely on libc 2.14, and that the > current stable Debian (I know, I know) comes with libc 2.13. Am I reading > the

Re: [racket] racket 6.0 build for debian?

2014-03-04 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On 03/04/14 08:19, John Clements wrote: I’d like to run racket 6 on a 64-bit Debian 7 VPS (that I have with linode). It appears to me that our pre-built binaries rely on libc 2.14, and that the current stable Debian (I know, I know) comes with libc 2.13. Am I reading the error messages correc

[racket] Racket/Scheme on the Mostly Erlang Podcast

2014-03-04 Thread Zachary Kessin
Hi Everyone I am the host of the Mostly Erlang podcast and from time to time we like to talk about other functional languages. I would like to have an episode on Scheme and Racket in the near future. I was hoping that some folks form the Racket community would be willing to join us via Skype to ta