Uncle. Robby
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Matthew Flatt <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the tool should be outside of the "racket" collection, too, and > a "future-visualizer" collection sounds right to me. > > At Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:33:02 -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: >> An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote: >> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Eli Barzilay <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > >> > > 10 minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: >> > >> It is the future visualizer so I thought it belonged with the >> > >> visualizer. No? >> > > >> > > (You mean "... belonged with the futures", right?) >> > >> > Right. :) >> > >> > >> Alternative suggestions welcome. >> > > >> > > I think that it fits well with other meta-analysis kind of tools like >> > > errortrace and the profiler, so a new toplevel collection seems to >> > > make perfect sense. I don't have a concrete suggestion better than >> > > "future-visualizer" though since I don't know what it does exactly. >> > > Maybe "future-debugger" or "future-tracker" or something like that? >> > >> > I think we have too many top-level collections and making a new one, >> > especially with "future-" in the name seems like a step in the wrong >> > direction. >> >> If more tools will be there, then it could be "futute/something"... >> Or maybe add a new "tools" collection for other similar things? >> But in any case, having a new toplevel collection seems much less of a >> problem than having a tool in racket/*. >> >> > ("visualizer" is a better word than "debugger" or "tracker" for what >> > it does, IMO, altho it has elements of those. But if you read the docs >> > in the Guide about it, you should get some idea what it does.) >> >> An hour and a half ago, James Swaine wrote: >> > >> > Agreed, "debugger" and "tracker" don't really adequately describe >> > it. Maybe "future-profiler" is another option, but maybe confusing >> > since we already have "profiler". (But I still think "visualizer" >> > is best, IMHO). >> >> (I did say that I don't know what it's doing so I was blindly >> guessing...) >> >> -- >> ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: >> http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! >> >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
