On Jan 29, Robby Findler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ry...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > Robby Findler wrote: > >> > >> Matthew suggested a change to the language dialog that I've just now > >> checked in. Please give it a try and let me know what you think. > > > > I think the explanatory text under the first option should be replaced with > > something like the following: > > > > Typical language declarations: > > #lang <language-name> > > #!r6rs > > > > Or perhaps instead of the abstract #lang example have two concrete ones, > > like "#lang scheme" and "#lang typed/scheme". > > > > It should also have a link to an explanation of language declarations in the > > help desk, either following the examples or as the text "language > > declarations" above hyperlinked. > > Does it make sense to have a link to an introduction that explains > #lang (and moves on to other things) instead?
I thought that something like http://docs.plt-scheme.org/guide/Module_Syntax.html would be right, except that this section needs some improvements, like avoiding the `module' reference (or maybe explaining it much later than the first sentence), and generally making it more beginner friendly. -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-dev