[racket-users] Have not found my (place)

2016-01-03 Thread JCG
On Debian, the code below runs in compiled mode (raco exe test.rkt) in Racket 6.2.1. However, In Racket 6.3, dynamic-require chokes. dynamic-require: unknown module module name: # In 6.3.0.10, it fails differently place: contract violation expected: (or/c module-path? path?) given: '''n

[racket-users] Re: Racket in a web page (via Whalesong)

2016-01-03 Thread George Neuner
On Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:33:17 -0800 (PST), Greg Trzeciak wrote: >I am actually more interested with long term viability of Whalesong >than being able to run it right now, hence my questions related to >bootstrapped version (and compiler + expander in Racket). My >current understanding is that out

Re: [racket-users] Ligatures for monospace fonts in editors?

2016-01-03 Thread David Christiansen
Matthew, > 1) In a Unicode-aware language like Racket, there's no way to visually > distinguish a presentational use of a ligature from a syntactic use. For > instance, these two strings would be displayed the same way: > > (string-append* '("m" "f" "l" "a" "t" "t")) > (string-append* '("m" "fl" "

Re: [racket-users] Ligatures for monospace fonts in editors?

2016-01-03 Thread David Christiansen
All right, no worries. It would make the slides a bit prettier, but Pragmata is also beautiful without the ligatures. Now that I know it's non-trivial, I will do other things! Thanks! /David On 03/01/16 01:36, Matthew Flatt wrote: > The `text%` layer currently manipulates characters individually