Re: [racket] future on dual processor machine

2011-05-17 Thread Jos Koot
Thanks, I patiently await the fix. I am not in a hurry. Thanks for keeping me posted, Jos _ From: users-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org] On Behalf Of James Swaine Sent: 17 May 2011 07:02 To: users@racket-lang.org Subject: Re: [racket] future on dual

Re: [racket] Question about reading string on a file

2011-05-17 Thread Jos Koot
Are you sure you output the A-list in write-mode? Using display (or (printf ~a A-list)) would give you exactly the output you describe. You may want to use symbol? and string? in order to inspect the input. Jos _ From: users-boun...@racket-lang.org [mailto:users-boun...@racket-lang.org]

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:34:39PM -0600, Ryan Culpepper wrote: On 05/16/2011 09:38 PM, Russell Adams wrote: Folks, I'm incredibly pleased with rackunit, having just used it on a funky piece of parsing code,

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
On May 17, 2011, at 8:12 AM, Russell Adams wrote: I didn't need the case or suite functionality yet. You did. That's what your long post says, but you probably didn't realize it. -- Matthias _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
While we're at it: any chance of getting a test-on-entry-point for Rackunit as I described a while ago is available in Python? -- Matthias _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
YES! That would also solve the problems with Kathy's test engine. Indeed, we could just replace test engine with rackunit in *sl. -- Matthias On May 17, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Tue, 17 May 2011 08:57:26 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: While we're at it: any chance of

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Eli Barzilay
40 minutes ago, Matthew Flatt wrote: At Tue, 17 May 2011 08:57:26 -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: While we're at it: any chance of getting a test-on-entry-point for Rackunit as I described a while ago is available in Python? I think we would want to implement it as a `#lang' mix-in

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Russell Adams
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 07:40:14AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote: I had tried run-tests with 'verbose, and define-test-suite. I really just have a file full of checks currently, I didn't need the case or suite functionality yet. (not to be a pita, but maybe you do! :) Robby I did try

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
(test/gui test-suite) On May 17, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Russell Adams wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 07:40:14AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote: I had tried run-tests with 'verbose, and define-test-suite. I really just have a file full of checks currently, I didn't need the case or suite

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Ryan Culpepper
On 05/17/2011 06:12 AM, Russell Adams wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:34:39PM -0600, Ryan Culpepper wrote: On 05/16/2011 09:38 PM, Russell Adams wrote: Folks, I'm incredibly pleased with rackunit, having just used it on a funky piece of parsing code, however I encountered a minor issue.

[racket] Fwd: URLs in slideshows

2011-05-17 Thread Rodolfo Carvalho
How do I write URLs with hyperlinks in a slideshow? I tried something like: (require (only-in scribble/base url)) (slide #:title Want more? (t (url http://racket-lang.org;))) = but it is a contract violation... []'s Rodolfo Carvalho (PS: previous message was waiting for moderation because

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Russell Adams
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: (test/gui test-suite) That's nice, but who uses a gui? -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3

Re: [racket] Fwd: URLs in slideshows

2011-05-17 Thread Matthew Flatt
There's not currently a clickable-URL function provided with Slideshow. You'd have to use a combination of `clickback' and `send-url', and it would only work when running the show (as opposed to PDF output from printing the slides). At Tue, 17 May 2011 12:23:36 -0300, Rodolfo Carvalho wrote: How

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Eric Hanchrow
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Matthew Flatt mfl...@cs.utah.edu wrote: I think we would want to implement it as a `#lang' mix-in  #lang testable racket That sounds _great_. _ For list-related administrative tasks:

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Robby Findler
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: (test/gui test-suite) That's nice, but who uses a gui? I believe Ryan offered to add something to add this functionality to the text

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Russell Adams
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 08:39:45AM -0600, Ryan Culpepper wrote: Save the old check-around handler: (define base-check-around (current-check-around)) The new handler will call the thunk (ie, run the check), and if the check succeeds (ie, does not raise an exception), then it prints out a

Re: [racket] rackunit positive feedback

2011-05-17 Thread Grant Rettke
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:35:26AM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: (test/gui test-suite) That's nice, but who uses a gui? Lol we use a gui at work for the business analysts to run acceptance tests... not in

Re: [racket] Question about reading string on a file

2011-05-17 Thread Danny Yoo
 I want to write an A-List on a file Diary.txt , this A-list contains couples of a symbol and a string. Example : '((17/05/2011 Hello guys) (18/05/2011 good morning)) . But I have a problem when I read this A-List from the file with the function (read p-in), it transforms strings to symbol ..

Re: [racket] Code Error Creating List

2011-05-17 Thread Todd O'Bryan
I apologize in advance for not actually reading through your code beyond the point where it began using constructs that I'm not familiar with, but I will give some advice that may or may not be helpful. You're trying to return '(x). What you're actually returning is (x)--an application of the

Re: [racket] Code Error Creating List

2011-05-17 Thread Todd Dobmeyer
Todd Thanks, you are definitely making me think, but I don't see what would be wrong with what I am trying. The first thing I tried was to remove free-vars and just call free-vars-list directly and change the case of (var-exp (id) id) to (var-exp (id) (list id)) ;; in this example id == x

Re: [racket] Code Error Creating List

2011-05-17 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Todd D: 1. This code must be the worst formatted Racket code I have seen in a long time. Please read EOPL and follow its example. 2. Next, when DrRacket tells you that a particular sub-expression in your program raised an error, please -- pretty please -- pay attention. I removed the