Re: [racket-users] xml library clarification - """ symbol parsing

2019-11-21 Thread Kira
I understand that there is no law that forbids some ways of XML parsing. :) My question is in another plain. Perhaps some other languages have the same realization? I am trying to understated what purpose it serves? Does this done intentionally, or this is just random side effect? For example thi

Re: [racket-users] xml library clarification - """ symbol parsing

2019-11-21 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 9:51 AM, Kira wrote: > > I tested sxml. And it is producer rigth (for me) output. > > I feel that this is wrong behavior. Because this " symbols is direct > part of one and whole element content. And must be read as "\"test qoute\"". > > Can please someone explain reason

Re: [racket-users] xml library clarification - """ symbol parsing

2019-11-21 Thread Jay McCarthy
Hi Kira, I think this is consistent with how XML is defined. There is a sequence of character data inside of tags. Character data is represented by strings in the `xml` library. And there is a sequence of those. Jay -- Jay McCarthy Associate Professor @ CS @ UMass Lowell http://jeapostrophe.gith

Re: [racket-users] GUI (get-directory)

2019-11-21 Thread Alexis King
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 11:21, James Platt wrote: > > If we can direct more of the energy of this community into, not just > improving the documentation, but the way we do documentation, it would be a > major improvement. Requiring lots of parentheses doesn't bother me. Lack of > infix notatio

[racket-users] window on-move / move inconsistency: is this a bug?

2019-11-21 Thread Simon Schlee
Hello, I am writing a gui application it is supposed to save the position of the window and upon restart restore the position. For this I get the position via overriding the on-move method of frame%. Upon restoring I call (send frame move x y). The problem is that on my system (linux manjaro xfc

[racket-users] xml library clarification - """ symbol parsing

2019-11-21 Thread Kira
I have a few questions. 1. Consider XML like this: test"test qoute" (string->xexpr "test"test qoute"") Will produce this: '(ROOT () (A () (B1 () "test") (B2 () "\"" "test qoute" "\""))) The problem is " is parsed as separate entity. You can see that they added to list of element content as se

Re: [racket-users] Re: GUI (get-directory)

2019-11-21 Thread James Platt
On Nov 20, 2019, at 3:31 AM, Jack Firth wrote: > Would it have helped if the get-directory documentation had included > examples? Many parts of Racket's documentation are lacking in example code, > especially the less-commonly-encountered parts. Indeed, I have previously mentioned the lack of

[racket-users] Building Racket 7.5 CS on MacOS Catalina

2019-11-21 Thread Bruce O'Neel
Hi all, I normally build Racket from source, and, for 7.5 I decided to try Racket CS as well. Racket 7.5 builds fine from minimal source.  Racket CS builds fine as well from minimal source, but, when I run the command to build the rest of the distribution. ./raco pkg install --de

Re: [racket-users] Installing Racket 7.5 OSX command line

2019-11-21 Thread Manfred Lotz
On Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:11:09 -0800 (PST) tbrooke wrote: > I have been trying to get the path set for racket 7.5 cs on OSX - > 7.4 cs worked fine > > I am not on Catalina yet. I am on Mojave 10.14.6 > > I renamed the directory I tried adding to paths.d and still no go > > I get: > > zsh: comm