Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Jordan Schatz
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:04:41PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: I prefer keeping the lambda in it.[1] Also r is much less unique.[2] 1+ (or 1!) _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:00:37 -0700 Jordan Schatz jor...@noionlabs.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 11:04:41PM -0500, Eli Barzilay wrote: I prefer keeping the lambda in it.[1] Also r is much less unique.[2] 1+ (or 1!) +wau - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFLkou8NvJo s. -- This is

Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Matthew Flatt
+1 At Thu, 9 Feb 2012 22:34:31 +, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote: +1 On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Jay McCarthy jay.mccar...@gmail.com wrote: +1 On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Robby Findler ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu wrote: John Clements and Neil Toronto have put together a

Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Robby Findler
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Apparently I was confused, and didn't realize that this wasn't a discussion but a change that is already the default. I put it there to make easy for people to see it in one of the more prominent places where it will appear,

Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Eli Barzilay
An hour and a half ago, Robby Findler wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Eli Barzilay e...@barzilay.org wrote: Apparently I was confused, and didn't realize that this wasn't a discussion but a change that is already the default. I put it there to make easy for people to see it in one

Re: [racket-dev] Racket logo

2012-02-10 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Eli Barzilay wrote at 02/09/2012 09:27 PM: ([2] What Neil VD said.) It's just Neil V. -- no social diseases. -- http://www.neilvandyke.org/ _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

[racket-dev] very unhelpful beginner language error message, possible fix proposed

2012-02-10 Thread John Clements
A user on stackoverflow had a question about this code: (define list-sum-odd (lambda (list) (cond ((null? list) 0) ((odd? (car list)) (+ (car list) (list-sum-odd (cdr list (list-sum-odd (cdr list) (list-sum-odd '(3 4 5)) ... which signalled an error. In #lang

Re: [racket-dev] very unhelpful beginner language error message, possible fix proposed

2012-02-10 Thread Danny Yoo
Ho Ho! thought I. Beginner Student Racket will give a much better error message. Actually, though, the error message was much worse: it highlighted the id list-sum-odd in what should have been the 'else' case, and wrote: list-sum-odd: expected a function call, but there is no open

Re: [racket-dev] very unhelpful beginner language error message, possible fix proposed

2012-02-10 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Yes, and it was submitted in some form as a bug before. Why don't you modify teach.rkt and see whether you like the result better. Then submit. On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: Ho Ho! thought I. Beginner Student Racket will give a much better error message. Actually,