Re: [racket] Are there any functional structs in Racket

2010-10-20 Thread engineer
Are you all also considering some way to conveniently update more than one at a time? Functional style is still much more cumbersome than mutation style. (set (set a-world ufo wings right 'damaged) ufo wings left 'broken) starts to get cumbersome quickly. Is something like the below possible? I

Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-04 Thread engineer
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Re: [racket] Math Guidance

2010-11-05 Thread engineer
> practically speaking, it seems to me like everyone cares about a CS > *degree*, even if they then summarily ignore what was ostensibly > taught for the degree. Don't underestimate the power of a network of friends and colleagues. When I've worked in small startup-ish companies, I've seen a numb

Re: [racket] Newbie question

2010-11-10 Thread engineer
It's like taking a pile of cash in three different denominations and determining the total value. The significance tells you which digit is which. For instance, in the number: 12,657,809.43 ; the 3 is very insignificant to the total value of the number. So 3 is the least significant there. You

Re: [racket] This is not a solution! Re: A puzzle

2011-01-20 Thread engineer
Part of what makes MIT Mystery Hunt puzzles so hard is that even the questions aren't often obvious. > I see a lot of code, but what's the puzzle. Presumably > there's some kind of question that has to be answered about it? > > -- hendrik > _ >