Re: [racket-dev] Testing for Racket v6.0

2014-02-16 Thread David T. Pierson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:55:59PM -0500, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > If you are interested in helping, please reply to this message to > the mailing list and include the configuration(s) you are willing > to test. OK, of what seems to be remaining... I can do the Windows 32-bit, if it is acceptable

Re: [racket-dev] Testing for Racket v6.0

2014-02-15 Thread David T. Pierson
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:55:59PM -0500, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > We would like to test the release candidate on the following > configurations: If I find the time to help here, where would I get the official "release candidate"? Sorry if this should be obvious. David _

Re: [racket-dev] building from a git checkout into a separate BUILD directory

2013-11-06 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 11:28:46AM -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote: > But how well does it work to use > > bin/raco pkg install -i --auto main-distribution > > at the end of the commands above? > > Use `raco pkg install` pulls packages from the network, instead of from Hmm, I think that will not wo

Re: [racket-dev] how to test rackunit

2013-11-05 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 10:48:39PM -0600, Jay McCarthy wrote: > http://drdr.racket-lang.org/27688/pkgs/rackunit-pkgs/rackunit-test/tests/rackunit/run-tests.rkt > > One thing that you will see is that as part of testing there are some > failing tests to see what happens, but the tests deliberately

[racket-dev] how to test rackunit

2013-11-02 Thread David T. Pierson
What is the correct way to run the tests which test rackunit? I am running the following after building with a clean tree: $ racket/bin/raco test pkgs/rackunit-pkgs/rackunit-test/tests/rackunit This seems to show several "failures", though since it is testing rackunit I'm pretty sure most if no

[racket-dev] accessing @deftech terms in the reference from the guide

2013-10-23 Thread David T. Pierson
Are terms defined via @deftech in the Racket reference supposed to be accessible via @tech from the Racket guide? In pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribblings/reference/evts.scrbl there exists a line that looks like: ... @deftech{synchronizable event} ... In my pkgs/racket-pkgs/racket-doc/scribb

[racket-dev] git rebase/squash my commits before submitting a pull request?

2013-10-19 Thread David T. Pierson
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my Guide chapter on concurrency. I think I've addressed everyone's suggestions in my latest version [1]. My question at this point is whether to rebase before submitting a pull request. If the initial commit had not been made public I would obviousl

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Guide chapter on concurrency

2013-10-19 Thread David T. Pierson
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 03:42:56AM -0500, Robby Findler wrote: > You can use things like @interaction[] to run and typeset examples; does > that help? > > http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/eval.html?q=interaction#%28form._%28%28lib._scribble%2Feval..rkt%29._interaction%29%29 That's not exactly

[racket-dev] building from a git checkout into a separate BUILD directory

2013-10-19 Thread David T. Pierson
I am building from a (relatively recent) git checkout. I have been using the in-place make target which installs in ./racket, but I'd like to have everything built and installed in a separate BUILD directory. My motivations are to have a single directory to rm -r when I want to start over and seco

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Guide chapter on concurrency

2013-10-07 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 04:08:27PM -0400, David Vanderson wrote: > This is fantastic! Thank you! I learned a good deal reading it > just now. Comments below: Great! Thanks for checking it out and commenting. > make-arithmetic-thread is missing a "(let loop ()" line. Later in > the same examp

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Guide chapter on concurrency

2013-10-07 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 02:21:26PM -0700, John Clements wrote: > Isn't this early example: > > +@racketblock[ > +(define worker (thread (lambda () > + (let loop () > + (displayln "Working...") > + (loop) > +(sle

[racket-dev] Racket Guide chapter on concurrency

2013-10-06 Thread David T. Pierson
Hi all, At the hackathon Asumu helped me work on a Guide chapter on concurrency. Thanks Asumu! Since then I've fleshed it out some more and pushed a commit to github. https://github.com/davidtpierson/racket/commit/d2fb857efec8ce508ac6f76afa845d788edab4c1 It probably needs more work. I would

Re: [racket-dev] Revising Racket's home page

2013-08-19 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 05:39:54PM -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote: > Recently I (with assistance from Asumu) have spent some time drafting > a revised home page for Racket. A revised web page will nicely > complement the big upcoming release, I hope. You can see the draft > here, which is ready

Re: [racket-dev] current-*-port

2012-05-03 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 03:48:17PM -0400, Eli Barzilay wrote: > With the trend of having shorter names, I'll try suggesting it again. > Looking at some random slides (the ones from Matthew's talk), one > thing that is -- still -- very strikingly inconvenient is code like > > (parameterize ([curr

Re: [racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

2012-03-29 Thread David T. Pierson
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:44:35AM -0400, David T. Pierson wrote: > (Presumably if equally concise names that better reflected function > signatures were available, they would have been used in the first > place.) Sorry for the double post. I should have added "equally lucid"

Re: [racket-dev] consistency in names and signatures

2012-03-28 Thread David T. Pierson
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:23:16PM -0400, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > The naming consistency is good, but they aren't really consistent at > the signature or functionality level: > > string->number produces #f when called on "hello world" or "\0" > string->path fails on "\0" > string->url succ

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-14 Thread David T. Pierson
Hi all, Graphic design is not a strength of mine, but I had an idea that I don't think I've seen incorporated into any of the designs so far. Maybe someone will want to take it further. http://i.imgur.com/ExgM6.png A couple of points: My original idea was simply an italicized R and a λ. Then I

Re: [racket-dev] Missing pregexp syntax in Racket

2011-11-29 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:02:46AM -0800, Pauan wrote: > JavaScript you can saythis: /\\\d/  But before we can even consider > such a syntax, we first need to add in theabove mentioned regexp > syntaxes. Because otherwise #px/\n/ would compile into(pregexp "\\n") > which would then throw an error,

Re: [racket-dev] Missing pregexp syntax in Racket

2011-11-29 Thread David T. Pierson
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:02:46AM -0800, Pauan wrote: > Yes that is exactly it. The rationale is as ozzloy said: right now you > needto use something like #px"\\d" to match the string "\\5". > That's a lot ofbackslashes! > In other languages that support regexps, there's usually a way of > spe

Re: [racket-dev] Missing pregexp syntax in Racket

2011-11-27 Thread David T. Pierson
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 10:35:57PM -0800, Pauan wrote: > It was brought up that my explanation was confusing, and I agree it is. > So I'll try again. The following should return #t: ... > (regexp-match? "\\n"        "\n") I am confused about a number of things in your emails, so for simplicity I'm

Re: [racket-dev] [racket] Question about round

2011-09-30 Thread David T. Pierson
Hi all, I'm hoping that non-developers [of Racket itself] are welcome to post here. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:59:25AM -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote: > Here's a proposal: > `integer?' becomes the same as `exact-integer?' (which is kept for > backwards compatibility). It is not clear to me from t