Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread Neil Toronto
On 04/04/2012 02:02 PM, Ray Racine wrote: One more anecdote I also seem to recall Typed Racket uncovering a bug in SRFI-19 string formatting code. I just can't say enough about the value of Typed Racket.If it had a finger I'd put a ring on it.[1] Ray [1] No honeymoon jokes, or commentary o

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread Ray Racine
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 12:39 PM, John Clements wrote: > > A quick scan of your repository suggests that you were also focused on > julian<->date conversions and on formatting. Is this a fair summary? > > John > > Yep. The primary goal was to position everything where I had a top level suite prede

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread John Clements
On Apr 4, 2012, at 9:28 AM, Ray Racine wrote: > Stay in the scheme sphere long enough everyone has their SRFI moment and one > concerning SRFI-19 in particular. Here I refer to the, "that's it, I can't > stand no more, by god, this time I'm going replace SRFI-19" moment. > > A couple of mont

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread Ray Racine
Stay in the scheme sphere long enough everyone has their SRFI moment and one concerning SRFI-19 in particular. Here I refer to the, "that's it, I can't stand no more, by god, this time I'm going replace SRFI-19" moment. A couple of months back I had my nth moment with SRFI-19 and my usual partia

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread John Clements
On Apr 4, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Neil Toronto wrote: > On 03/27/2012 01:46 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: >> Rodolfo Carvalho wrote at 03/27/2012 03:27 PM: >>> Actually, I wonder if people use any srfi much? >> >> Some people still use SRFIs with Racket (I don't anymore), but usually >> Racket has somewhat

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-04-04 Thread Neil Toronto
On 03/27/2012 01:46 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Rodolfo Carvalho wrote at 03/27/2012 03:27 PM: Actually, I wonder if people use any srfi much? Some people still use SRFIs with Racket (I don't anymore), but usually Racket has somewhat better comparable features separate from SRFIs, either built-in

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Tom McNulty wrote at 03/27/2012 04:03 PM: What is the official stance on using SRFI modules in new applications? Non-official answer: If you want to use SRFIs, they're there, and you should feel free to use them. What I think people should *not* do is try to use RnRS and SRFIs believing tha

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-03-27 Thread Tom McNulty
For some reason I've been averse to them, perhaps for good reason other than their distinction from the racket libraries. I began working with scheme/racket relatively recently, so I probably do not fully appreciate the historical rationale behind them. (I do fully understand the need for b

Re: [racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Rodolfo Carvalho wrote at 03/27/2012 03:27 PM: Actually, I wonder if people use any srfi much? Some people still use SRFIs with Racket (I don't anymore), but usually Racket has somewhat better comparable features separate from SRFIs, either built-in or in PLaneT. There are at least two mat

[racket] srfi usage within Racket

2012-03-27 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 13:55, Joe Gilray wrote: > Thanks (again) Rodolfo, > > Do people use the srfi/25 arrays much? [-snip] > > -Joe > I do not know. Actually, I wonder if people use any srfi much? Sometimes they seem to me to don't fit well within Racket. Possibily it has something to do wi