Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #26372: master branch updated

2013-02-27 Thread Norman Gray
quot;phaseless" confusing. IIUC, >>> these modules are not special because they have no phase, but rather >>> because they're the same at all phases. >>> >>> Would "pan-phase", "omni-phase" or "cross-phase" be an accurate >>> description? >>> >>> Vincent >>> _ >>> Racket Developers list: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev >>> > _ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Documentation lacuna?

2013-01-22 Thread Norman Gray
needs a holiday All the best, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Documentation lacuna?

2013-01-21 Thread Norman Gray
clearer (easier to guess the effect of) in the no-output case. (response 304 #"Not Modified" (current-seconds) #"IGNORED" (list (make-header #"Location" #"http://racket-lang.org/download";)) #f) Finally: Re-reading what I first wrote, I suspect I wa

Re: [racket-dev] Documentation lacuna?

2013-01-21 Thread Norman Gray
Sorry, an addendum... On 2013 Jan 21, at 12:23, Norman Gray wrote: > In the web server, the documentation for RESPONSE and, by implication, > RESPONSE/FULL does not explain how to avoid including a message-body in the > response, as is required for 1xx, 204, 304 statuses (and th

[racket-dev] Documentation lacuna?

2013-01-21 Thread Norman Gray
is documented to be appropriate only for certain statuses, and which suppresses the content-length; or document that giving a 'body' of #"" is indeed the approved way of giving a no-body response for these statuses, and that the content-length is generated but redundant. Best w

Re: [racket-dev] OS X 10.8 includes new restrictions on running apps

2012-02-22 Thread Norman Gray
atekeeper-a-concern-but-still-gives-power-users-control.ars http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/11/apple-pushes-back-sandboxing-deadline-as-devs-struggle-with-tradeoffs.ars [2] http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars/9 -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School

Re: [racket-dev] OS X 10.8 includes new restrictions on running apps

2012-02-22 Thread Norman Gray
ked/2012/02/21/sandboxing [2] http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2324/fix-the-sandbox -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] Formlets and POST

2012-02-20 Thread Norman Gray
Jay, hello. On 2012 Feb 20, at 17:51, Jay McCarthy wrote: > I just pushed something to address this. > > It adds a keyword argument to send/formlet to control the method and > defaults it to POST. That sounds like an excellent solution. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman G

[racket-dev] Formlets and POST

2012-02-19 Thread Norman Gray
which is identical to send/formlets but with a [method "POST"] added, seems to work fine, because formlet-process uses request-bindings/raw, which handles both GET and POST requests. Therefore, I think that should probably be the default. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : htt

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-15 Thread Norman Gray
is a great look for Racket. Logos should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-13 Thread Norman Gray
lue is a bit too light, the red a bit too pink, and the text could perhaps be a shade bigger, but the shape is not, I think, unpleasing. All the best, Norman > On Feb 13, 2012, at 10:25 AM, Norman Gray wrote: > >> >> On 2012 Feb 13, at 14:54, Philippe Meunier wrote: >&

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-13 Thread Norman Gray
a unit. That doesn't have the shinies of other suggestions, but it's obviously very adaptable and (to my aesthetic at least) matches the chiselled restraint of a Scheme. I think that's exhausted my visual creativity for the day, so I'll shut up now All the best, Norman

Re: [racket-dev] new logo

2012-02-13 Thread Norman Gray
ree seem to be tending towards the florid, but some more rhythmic version of the other three -- variants of 'λr.' -- might be worth closer examination. I'm aware the last one of the six is starting to look more like lambda-tau. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nx

Re: [racket-dev] Racket home page proposal

2011-12-20 Thread Norman Gray
and they end up being the only things I see at all. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

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

2011-11-29 Thread Norman Gray
ax can be a big > readability win when your regexps get complicated. > http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/citations.html#sre What Neil said _and_ what Shivers said! Implementing Shivers-style SREs would be a much bigger win than any alternate pregexp syntax with differently funky backslash

[racket-dev] PLaneT and proxies

2011-10-08 Thread Norman Gray
an't use DrRacket to avoid the problem. Can I therefore take this opportunity to raise this as a possible project for anyone with some Copious Free Time needing used? There were a few plausible fragments of code in the above threads, which might make this quite a small project. Best wis

Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT and proxies

2010-09-29 Thread Norman Gray
Robby, hello. Back around 2010 June 20, there was a discussion about PLaneT and proxies. It ended with: On 2010 Jun 21, at 09:43, Norman Gray wrote: >> Oh-- Eli pointed out something offlist: did you try starting up >> drracket, setting its proxy preferences and then tryin

Re: [racket-dev] Scribble in-source documentation documentation

2010-06-28 Thread Norman Gray
Greetings. On 2010 Jun 26, at 20:47, Norman Gray wrote: > Greetings. > > Section 4.5 of the Scribble docs, 'In-Source Documentation' refers to the > file/gif.rkt source as a useful example of this practice. [...] Looking at this message again, it strikes me that it

[racket-dev] Scribble in-source documentation documentation

2010-06-26 Thread Norman Gray
ations/Racket/Racket v5.0/collects/scribble/run.rkt: [running body] % pwd /checkouts/me/code/plt-librdf/doc % That is, the processing of include-extracted seems to be searching for required modules in an unexpected way. Thanks for any illumination. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : http://nxg.me.uk _ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev

Re: [racket-dev] PLaneT and proxies

2010-06-21 Thread Norman Gray
mple > we can do for now so that Norman can use planet on his school's > network, or should we wait for the net/url rewrite? I'll leave my hack in my local resolver.rkt -- don't worry about me. ...and: > Oh-- Eli pointed out something offlist: did you try starting up &g