Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28706: master branch updated

2014-05-08 Thread Matthias Felleisen
(We have maybe/c somewhere, and I think we should use it.) On May 8, 2014, at 4:19 PM, sa...@racket-lang.org wrote: samth has updated `master' from 98ae3d8b2d to e1ab2ffcf4. http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/98ae3d8b2d..e1ab2ffcf4 =[ One Commit

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28706: master branch updated

2014-05-08 Thread Robby Findler
(or/c #f x) seems better than maybe/c because it is nearly the same length and it is one less thing to memorize (and it's not like single-point of control applies here because this can never change). Robby On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen matth...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: (We have

[racket-dev] racket-test: racket doesn't run all the tests when places is disabled

2014-05-08 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
I'm testing the update to racket 6.0.1 and I'm seeing this problem: $ raco pkg install racket-test [..] $ cd .racket/6.0.1/pkgs/racket-test/tests/racket $ racket -f quiet.rktl Section(basic) Section(unicode) Section(rx) Section(reading) Section(readtable) Section(printing) Section(macro)

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28706: master branch updated

2014-05-08 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I think maybe signals a well-known functional idea. On May 8, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Robby Findler wrote: (or/c #f x) seems better than maybe/c because it is nearly the same length and it is one less thing to memorize (and it's not like single-point of control applies here because this can

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #28706: master branch updated

2014-05-08 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It was called option/c until we did option contracts. (All of this just shows that contracts are not written in the programming language proper, contrary to our propaganda.) On May 8, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Robby Findler wrote: add1 is fine compared to (+ ... 1), imo, because the name