[racket-users] Re: Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?

2018-03-30 Thread Matthew Butterick
On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:51:07 PM UTC-7, Stephen Smith wrote: > > Authoring a new Racket book (targeting all platforms and non-programmers) > > Great idea! Are there more details you can share about the project? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

Re: [racket-users] raco pkg downloads source code with a future timestamp

2018-03-30 Thread Greg Trzeciak
I confirm with the new snapshot build (6.90.0.24--2018-03-30(d3aa7e90e7/a) packages download and compile correctly and seconds->date & file-or-directory-modify-seconds work as expected now. Thank you for fixing the problem so quickly! Greg -- You received this message because you are subscrib

Re: [racket-users] Re: compile-zo: date for newly created .zo file ... is before source-file date ... which appears to be in the future

2018-03-30 Thread Greg Trzeciak
Continuation to this thread was happening at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/racket-users/xZCTFCBvzs0 The problem has been resolved by fixing how timestamps are read from filesystem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To

Re: [racket-users] Re: Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?

2018-03-30 Thread HiPhish
The benefit is that it looks nicer on the eyes in a GUI. I presume OP is talking about the Racket installation you get off the Racket website, and that installation is targeted at GUI users. I myself prefer the command-line and I use Racket via Homebrew, so I never even come across this issue.

Re: [racket-users] Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?

2018-03-30 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. On 30 Mar 2018, at 15:44, David Storrs wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:54 PM, HiPhish wrote: I think you are trying to solve the wrong problem. If people want to use a command-line tool they should know how to use the command line first. They [...] I look at it the other

Re: [racket-users] Re: Why is there a space in the path to the Racket application on MacOSX?

2018-03-30 Thread David Storrs
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 5:54 PM, HiPhish wrote: > I think you are trying to solve the wrong problem. If people want to use a > command-line tool they should know how to use the command line first. They > don't have to know every arcane feature of the Bourne Shell, but knowing to > escape spaces or

[racket-users] Re: [racket] running racket from the command line

2018-03-30 Thread Stephen Smith
Or you could do this (on a Mac but similar for Linux): sudo ln -s /Applications/Racket\ v6.12/ /usr/local/racket which would allow you to simply add /usr/local/racket/bin to your path. I use this method a lot. On Monday, October 21, 2013 at 2:20:53 PM UTC-4, Greg Hendershott wrote: > > Early o

Re: [racket-users] Struct general question

2018-03-30 Thread Alexander McLin
As an aside, vectors are intended to be a constant-time access data structure. Lists aren't so it won't make sense to build vectors on top of lists which would make for non-constant slot access times. On Monday, March 26, 2018 at 4:13:02 PM UTC-4, lysseus wrote: > > > > > On Mar 26, 2018, at 11

Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-30 Thread Daniel Prager
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Thomas F. Burdick wrote: > > > If you want to better understand why you need an envelope, it's a pretty > fun part of synthesis. By clipping the sound, you square off your waveform. > Square waves are made up of a lot of high-frequency components. To convince > yo

Re: [racket-users] Mozart's Musical dice with rsound

2018-03-30 Thread Thomas F. Burdick
On March 29, 2018 11:40:29 PM GMT+02:00, Daniel Prager wrote: >*Areas for improvement * > >1. There is an unpleasant quality to the ends of the notes, which I >generate by naively clipping piano-tones. Furthermore, if I up the >tempo >(e.g. set BEAT-LENGTH to 1/4) it becomes unlistenable. What