Re: [racket-dev] Re: Make range cooperate with for loops?

2017-01-03 Thread Robby Findler
I think that people coming from python will expect that `in-range`s name is `range`. So why not meet their expectations? Robby On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 7:51 PM, Andrew Kent wrote: > Is the beginner confusion then simply going to shift to "why is 'for' w/ > 'range' fast but 'for' w/ 'other-list-fu

[racket-dev] Re: Make range cooperate with for loops?

2017-01-03 Thread Andrew Kent
Is the beginner confusion then simply going to shift to "why is 'for' w/ 'range' fast but 'for' w/ 'other-list-function' is not?" (Not trying to be negative -- I just wonder if it might just further delay people's realizing there are both functions and special syntactic forms for things like 'f

Re: [racket-dev] Make range cooperate with for loops?

2017-01-03 Thread Robby Findler
Go for it!! Robby On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Alexis King wrote: > A question[1] was asked on Stack Overflow today that used `range` from > racket/list in a for loop, then was baffled as to why it was so slow compared > to a manually written loop using named let. To some extent, confusio

[racket-dev] Make range cooperate with for loops?

2017-01-03 Thread Alexis King
A question[1] was asked on Stack Overflow today that used `range` from racket/list in a for loop, then was baffled as to why it was so slow compared to a manually written loop using named let. To some extent, confusion of this sort is unavoidable, since it stems from a confusion about the differ

[racket-dev] Re: CRC-16-CCITT implementation?

2017-01-03 Thread jerryj
Sorry, I just realized I posted this in the wrong group >_< On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 8:36:42 AM UTC-7, jer...@g.clemson.edu wrote: > > Hi Racketeers, > > Does anyone have a CRC-16-CCITT implementation in Racket? I didn't see > it in the pkgs site, I thought someone might have an unpublishe

[racket-dev] CRC-16-CCITT implementation?

2017-01-03 Thread jerryj
Hi Racketeers, Does anyone have a CRC-16-CCITT implementation in Racket? I didn't see it in the pkgs site, I thought someone might have an unpublished version they might like to share. Thanks, Jerry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Devel