Re: [racket-dev] Documentation for dynamic-require and related terms is confusing.

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Gibbs Politz
+1. I started using dynamic-require for the first time over the past few weeks, and was quite bewildered at first. It took me a while to figure out that all I needed was a symbol, and I don't understand the other options yet. I mentioned this separately to Matthew already, because he was helping

Re: [racket-dev] Documentation for dynamic-require and related terms is confusing.

2012-09-16 Thread Matthias Felleisen
I will second the idea behind this request. (I thought I had to use dynamic-require's second argument in the summer, and after studying it for quite a while, i was happy to figure out a way around it.) On Sep 14, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Carl Eastlund wrote: > I just tried to figure out what the se

[racket-dev] Documentation for dynamic-require and related terms is confusing.

2012-09-14 Thread Carl Eastlund
I just tried to figure out what the second argument of dynamic-require does when it's not a symbol, for the nth time. First of all, the current interface -- 0, #false, and (void) as tokens for three rather arbitrary modes of operation -- leaves much to be desired. These other modes should probabl