Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2020-01-13 Thread Sage Gerard
I'd take this thread as evidence that outdated information is easier to discover than Rhombus. How many mentions of "Racket2" currently ranking in search engines have added mentions of Rhombus? Maybe it's not a big problem right now, but could it get harder to manage? Original Message

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2020-01-13 Thread Matthew Flatt
The project name is "Rhombus". The language name is TBD. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/racket-users/-x_M5wIhtWk/V47eL30HCgAJ At Mon, 13 Jan 2020 07:38:55 -0800 (PST), John Cowan wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 10:30:04 PM UTC-4, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > At RacketCon today, aft

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2020-01-13 Thread David Storrs
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:38 AM John Cowan wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 10:30:04 PM UTC-4, Matthew Flatt wrote: > > At RacketCon today, after summarizing the state of work on Racket CS, I >> recommended that we next explore the possibly of changing to an >> infix-oriented syntax in "

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2019-07-15 Thread gfb
On Monday, July 15, 2019 at 9:52:43 AM UTC-4, cwebber wrote: > > Maciek Godek writes: > > > Maybe the direction similar to where "I think we should be heading" is > > somewhere between Mathematica notebooks and Smalltalk's object > environments. > > I had similar-ish thoughts while watching t

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2019-07-15 Thread Raoul Schorer
I'm far out of my depth, but... Doesn't REBOL syntax fit all criteria given in the RacketCon talk? That's a genuine question. Reading about it, I was under the impression that it was basically lisp with alternate syntax. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2019-07-15 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Maciek Godek writes: > Maybe the direction similar to where "I think we should be heading" is > somewhere between Mathematica notebooks and Smalltalk's object environments. I had similar-ish thoughts while watching the excellent Fructure talk at this year's RacketCon: maybe intro courses would b

Re: [racket-users] Re: Racket2 and syntax

2019-07-15 Thread Neil Van Dyke
I look forward to the syntax discussion, within whatever process is determined. (BTW, I've said similar to what Gabriel&Steele do, as recently as last week [1], but I'm open to rethinking syntax.  Especially if it might mean we can entice Shriram to resume working more directly on Racket. :)