Re: [racket-dev] python docstrings
> (I was actually relieved when Matthias properly tied this back to Lisp > docstrings. If you had read the very next sentence of my original message, you'd have seen this line from me: (It sounds like the docstrings of Common Lisp.) Shriram _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
Re: [racket-dev] python docstrings
On Jul 19, John Clements wrote: > [...] a python-like feature [...] I wasn't familiar with Python's > docstrings, so I checked them out. [...] On Jul 19, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: > Python apparently has a feature [...] (I was actually relieved when Matthias properly tied this back to Lisp docstrings. The python-only posts were going towards making another case of a "schwartzian transform" thing.) -- ((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
[racket-dev] python docstrings
In the being-aware-of-your-competitors category: I was sitting in the first TSRJ lecture this morning, and Kathi was introducing the notion of the purpose statement. One teacher in the audience raised her hand, and asked whether DrRacket had a python-like feature where users could query the system for the purpose statement associated with a given user-defined function. I wasn't familiar with Python's docstrings, so I checked them out. In their current form, they're largely irrelevant, but I could definitely see it being useful to be able to fold purpose statements into the right-click menu in DrRacket. Specifically, I see that there's a "jump to definition" entry in that right-click menu; perhaps it would make sense to add the purpose statement associated with a function directly to that menu on its instantiation. John smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
