On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 10:14:39 PM UTC+8, robby wrote: > Hi Thomas: thank you for your energy and interest in clearing up the > terminology. I find this quite valuable.
Oh good. > There is a certain amount of > prescriptiveness that's coming through in your messages that makes it > a little more difficult than need be to answer your questions. After 18 posts I made one design suggestion about collection versions, and you explain it is already there (good!). Others were terminology proposals, such as native/local -- terms I thought would help the module-basics guide - as would some collective centric language. (I know it would have helped me pick it up the first time.) So I > wish to pop out a level here at the top of this message to point out > that the pkg system design has had quite a lot of thought put into its > concepts and while no one disagrees that we can explain them better, I > think that perhaps we should focus on explaining and understanding > them first and then changing them second. > I know you are guys are brilliant and have put a lot of thought into this. That is why I'm bowing out after discovering I don't don't have a firm grasp of it, and leaving it in your capable hands. I'm just relieved you found some value in the chat/search/tryout of some terminology. > > One place that I think help help is if you were to read the pkg system > terminology documentation. Did you find that already? It's here: > http://docs.racket-lang.org/pkg/Package_Concepts.html > yes I did read this, though you will note in the first post, I've been talking about the language in module-basics in the guide. There are a couple of paragraphs in the guide about packages and then it refers to the packages doc. I wanted to tie that into the collections definition above it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/0f385413-dab3-4b38-bc81-be02aca20492%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
