Re: [racket] book for a absolute beginner

2014-10-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone know a good book for a absolute beginner in racket with a lot of > exercises so I can check if I understand anything right ? It depends on your definition of 'absolute beginner'. Here are three scenarios: 1. a middl

Re: [racket] waiting for pkg catalog update?

2014-10-16 Thread Jay McCarthy
The proposed behavior you suggest is actually the old behavior, but an early request gave us what we have no. I do think we could improve by making clear that an update is going on and maybe they want a replace. Further, I think your problem would be resolved if you had tried to install both rsoun

Re: [racket] book for a absolute beginner

2014-10-16 Thread Amir Ansari
A colleague and I are working on a book for absolute beginners (ie. middle and high schoolers), but it's still at an early stage... The best books I've come across are: The Little Schemer, by Daniel Friedman and Matthias Felleisen Realm of Racket, by Matthias Felleisen et al How to Design Progra

[racket] book for a absolute beginner

2014-10-16 Thread Roelof Wobben
Hello, Does anyone know a good book for a absolute beginner in racket with a lot of exercises so I can check if I understand anything right ? Roelof Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] waiting for pkg catalog update?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clements
Forgot to cc: list, sorry... On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:46 AM, John Clements wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Jay McCarthy > wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Clements >> wrote: >> > Wow! I really like the new package system! >> > >> > Okay, now I'm going to compla

Re: [racket] waiting for pkg catalog update?

2014-10-16 Thread Jay McCarthy
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Clements wrote: > Wow! I really like the new package system! > > Okay, now I'm going to complain... > > I'm having trouble with pkgs.racket-lang.org, and it's affecting my classes. > > The issue here is that the catalog doesn't seem to have picked up my last

Re: [racket] Defining a typed language

2014-10-16 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Konrad Hinsen writes: > > > After a closer look at the language definition mechanism, I came to the > > conclusion that the language here is actually "s-exp", with my module > > merely providing the initial bindings. > > > > So what I s

[racket] waiting for pkg catalog update?

2014-10-16 Thread John Clements
Wow! I really like the new package system! Okay, now I'm going to complain... I'm having trouble with pkgs.racket-lang.org, and it's affecting my classes. The issue here is that the catalog doesn't seem to have picked up my last change to the rsound package, made some time yesterday. In particul

Re: [racket] FFI crashing Racket

2014-10-16 Thread Marc Burns
I was able to reproduce with Racket 6.1 (release) but not Racket 6.0.1.11 (git). The crash happens for LLVM 3.4 and 3.5 at least. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 09:40:00PM +0700, Evgeny Odegov wrote: > I didn't know about things explained in the message by link > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/

[racket] Defining a typed language

2014-10-16 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Konrad Hinsen writes: > After a closer look at the language definition mechanism, I came to the > conclusion that the language here is actually "s-exp", with my module > merely providing the initial bindings. > > So what I seem to need is typed/s-exp, but that doesn't exist. How > would I g

Re: [racket] Mirroring Racket

2014-10-16 Thread Matthew Flatt
Hi Nils, I'll coordinate with you off-list. Thanks, Matthew At Thu, 16 Oct 2014 14:06:02 +0200, Nils Van Geele wrote: > I am the new maintainer of the Racket mirror run by Infogroep and I noticed > that due to reasons beyond my comprehension, the script that synced our > mirror has vanished. As

[racket] Mirroring Racket

2014-10-16 Thread Nils Van Geele
I am the new maintainer of the Racket mirror run by Infogroep and I noticed that due to reasons beyond my comprehension, the script that synced our mirror has vanished. As a result, our mirror is lagging behind. We are moving servers soon, but I would like to bring the scripts up-to-date again as