On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 04:21:33PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 01:28:24AM -0700, Mike G. wrote:
> > ??? Make a clear distinction between mutable and immutable data
> >
> > Perhaps make everything immutable except for the contents of boxes
> &g
Opinions are like belly buttons, and I'd like to show you two of mine (as in
that terrible Gene Roddenberry film).
I very much like the overall goals of making Racket more consistent and more
generic. They strike me as reforms of the language. I wonder if adding these
features would be too f
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 02:10:44PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Atlas, I will have to think more about your message, but I think you're
> right to suggest that FAANGs might be part of a problem
Perhaps I'm the only one, but I had no idea what "FAANG" meant. For similar
folks:
"FAANG is an
> My proposal is to pick a currently underused character (I picked '/' 30
> years ago but amost anything would do) and use it to replace the
> tail-nesting '(', and remove its corresponding ')'.
>
> Suddenly visual parenthesis-matching becomes an order of magnitude
> easier, without losing any
Colin Gan said:
> Hi people,
>
> The aforementioned s-exp produces the result (one two three). I find this
> surprising as I do not expect the *list *procedure to unquote the symbols
> passed to it.
>
> Could someone explain why this is so?
You may be getting a different result if you're using one
"Why do you like functional programming so much?"
https://xkcd.com/1270/
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> Hi Matthias,
>
> Just one question: is the goal that we interpret the video ironically?
>
> I thought I would ask, so that someone from the team could explain what
> was
> intended with this script. My read, after watching it several times, and
> comparing it to videos about other novice programm
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 10:38:40PM -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>
> We should start with a Racket version for Land of Lisp.
> It would be much nicer in the Universe world than in an
> old Lisp world.
How is _Land of Lisp_? It looks tempting, and I might finally
get to apply some of the gr
>
> (case 8
> ((8 9 10) 'hello)
> (else 'goodbye)) -> hello
>
> (case "8"
> (("8" "9" "10") 'hello)
> (else 'goodbye)) -> goodbye
case uses eqv? for its comparisons. Two strings are eqv? only if they are
the same object, not if they have the same contents. See the Racket help
desk for mo
This may be old hat to some, but I just saw this short essay on Reddit and
thought it was interesting. From 2000, the author writes about having
used Scheme to design a C program that he could not have written from
scratch.
It also reminded me of some of the ideas from HtDP about programming as
a
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