Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT(2): Single vs multi-collection packages

2013-06-17 Thread Michael Wilber
I vote for this change too. I've been letting my planet packages sit in planet for too long now. This change provides a bit nicer upgrade path. :) Vincent St-Amour writes: > I vote for this change. > > I'm happy to change my packages (which make more sense as > single-collection packages anyway)

Re: [racket-dev] Tweaked doc pages

2013-03-05 Thread Michael Wilber
The Google search box seems a bit disorienting to me. Perhaps I just learned Racket, say yesterday, and it's unclear what it provides that isn't searched by the search box in the top middle. It might be nice to integrate that with the results page somehow, like a "Didn't find what you're looking fo

Re: [racket-dev] , en and enter! sometimes do nothing, and it's changing over releases?

2013-02-09 Thread Michael Wilber
Is this related to the enter bug? $ racket Welcome to Racket v5.3.2.3. > (enter! slideshow/pict) define-values: assignment disallowed; cannot re-define a constant constant: invoke-unit/core in module: "/home/michael/local/racket/collects/racket/unit.rkt" context...: /home/michael/local/r

Re: [racket-dev] a ftp gui client demo, anyone interest?

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Wilber
I love this idea, since it also (at least impliticly) demonstrates how to work with Racket's GUI layer, which could also be useful to new users. Matthias Felleisen writes: > We had a freshman two years back who implemented an ftp server. I think he > (and others like him) would have enjoyed a tu

Re: [racket-dev] API naming conventions (Push #25466)

2012-10-17 Thread Michael Wilber
Agreed. I wonder if we couldn't find a way to mirror the distinction between (define x ...) and (define (x) ...) somehow, combining the functionality of match-define and define/match. After all, we don't have define-var and define-fun, right? (match/define (list x y z) '(1 2 3)) x --> 1 (match/

Re: [racket-dev] Racket Questions?

2012-09-15 Thread Michael Wilber
For the record, I've always just defined my own modulo when I need it for floats: ; A modulo operator for floats! (define (float-modulo p q) (- p (* q (truncate (/ p q) It doesn't properly handle negative numbers though. David Van Horn writes: > On 9/14/12 3:36 PM, Becca MacKenzie wrote:

Re: [racket-dev] Potential search improvement

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Wilber
I just noticed something about the way I use search. Just now, I wanted to find the reference docs that describe threads. So I typed "thread" into the search box and got documentation about the (thread ...) form, in both the old and new search pages. But the reference describes "Threads", not "th