This seems like a coherent thing for it to do, but not something that I would personally use. I don't think I'd use it or like having it there because the more complicated the algorithm it uses to choose what to run, the more complicate the algorithm I run in my brain to predict what it will do has to be. Basically, I think I am likely to make mistakes this way.
As an aside, I thought we talked about this back when 'raco' was created about whether it should also serve as 'racket'. Jay On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm revising my course content now, and I ran into the change that > Robby committed a while ago to `raco setup' where it no longer > installs plt files by default. I didn't know what would be the best > thing to do with it, but I think that there's no problems keeping such > instructions with setup-plt -- since the files are still ".plt" files. > > But when I was thinking about that, I reazlied that since `raco' looks > for the first unambiguous prefix, it's doing a kind of a dwim search. > So why not go the whole way? Running raco with some string can: > > * Run the specified command if there is one. > > * If it specifies a valid (symbolic) require, require it (as in > `racket -l') -- a `foo' collection is effectively defining a > `raco foo' command, and the same for `foo/bar'. > > * If it specifies an existing filename that looks like > - "*.rkt", require the file (as in `racket -u') > - "*.rktl", load the file (as in `racket -r') > - "*.plt" (possibly more than one), install it > > [Otherwise it can look in the file for some magic header and > decide what to do ("#lang" => require it, some future magic string > for a package file => install it), but this might be a bad idea: > sticking to a .suffix means that it can be made reliable if raco > commands cannot use "." or ".suffix" for the few knowns suffixes.] > > * If something was required (through a symbolic require path or > "*.rkt"), and if doing so provided a `#%top-interaction' binding, > then start a repl. (Or do that with a language configuration > option.) > > ? > > -- > ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: > http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://teammccarthy.org/jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
