Re: [racket-users] Re: The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-08-21 Thread Chris Stephenson
ion so that every struct automatically had an inspector and so structs printed out nicely and EXAMPLE (ie check-expect) worked for structs. Except we called it ÖRNEK (which is example in Turkish) CS On Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 9:20:14 PM UTC+3, cwebber wrote: > > Chris Stephenson wri

Re: [racket-users] Re: The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-08-21 Thread Chris Stephenson
Hi Shriram Nice to hear from you! In a course for 14-18 year olds where we are rigorously enforcing the design recipe, the overwhelming majority of errors are, indeed, syntax errors. (Except for missiing-else conds, of course) So that was what I meant. Pyret syntax errors are reported confusin

Re: [racket-users] Re: The case, and a proposal, for elegant syntax in #lang racket2

2019-08-21 Thread Chris Stephenson
Parantheses and learners - experience with 14-18 year olds I have just finished giving a two week intensive course to 14-18 year olds at the Mathematics Village near Ephesus in Turkey The course is based on Bootstrapworld Algebra and Reactive. Internet is very poor in the village, so we cannot

Re: [racket] Mutable state vs RAM on fire

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Stephenson
curry poly-mul *mod) (list 1) (make-polys 1000 6 10))) -- Chris Stephenson c...@csl.tc Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] idiomatic and fast

2012-04-28 Thread Chris Stephenson
) faster the second time (time (!!list(take 20000 triangle-numbers))) Chris -- Chris Stephenson c...@csl.tc Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

Re: [racket] Other language levels in WeScheme?

2012-04-19 Thread Chris Stephenson
ct here in Turkey. I guess it is a similar problem. We are prepared to contribute programming effort if that will solve the problem. -- Chris Stephenson c...@csl.tc Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users

[racket] Continuation based form filling

2011-04-28 Thread Chris Stephenson
hanks for your time... -- Chris Stephenson c...@cs.bilgi.edu.tr _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] Racket does not allow entry of Non-European UTF-8 characters

2011-01-22 Thread Chris Stephenson
so are the programs. Data entry and program evaluation work fine with unicoded files. As far as we are concerned, another great thing about Racket -- Chris Stephenson c...@cs.bilgi.edu.tr _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] a small programming exercise

2010-10-15 Thread Chris Stephenson
on. But natural distributions are not uniform over a fixed range. They are bell curves of one sort or another. If you have a natural random distribution there will always be a skew toward the smaller digits. It is quantified as Benford's law. -- Chris Stephenson

Re: [racket] [BULK] Re: Looking for feedback on code style

2010-09-13 Thread Chris Stephenson
e answers as the ones "in the book". You get some very funny timings, because Python arrays are not so simple. Or they weren't, the last time I tried this. -- Chris Stephenson c...@cs.bilgi.edu.tr _ For list-related administ