Re: [racket-users] Scientific libraries?

On 02/06/17 02:50, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: I have been experimenting with the bigfloat library, which I understand to be a wrapper for the GNU MPFR library. And it works well. But I'm wondering if anybody's given thought about porting other scientific libraries, such as GNU GSL to Racket.

[racket-users] Scientific libraries?

I have been experimenting with the bigfloat library, which I understand to be a wrapper for the GNU MPFR library. And it works well. But I'm wondering if anybody's given thought about porting other scientific libraries, such as GNU GSL to Racket. Is this the sort of thing which would be very

[racket-users] Re: event resolution for nested editor-snips in racket/gui

On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 8:06:30 AM UTC+8, andrew blinn wrote: > I'm trying to use a assign a keypress to toggle the display of the border of > an embedded editor-snip. Currently pressing the toggle key only toggles the > border of the topmost snip, whereas I want to toggle the border most

Re: [racket-users] Racket Webserver add routes outside of dispatch-rules

I believe that you want `dispatch-rules!` rather than `dispatch-rules` http://docs.racket-lang.org/web-server/dispatch.html?q=dispatch-rules#%28part._.Imperative_.Dispatch_.Containers%29 This lets you define a container of routes that is used by your top-level and then various parts of your

Re: [racket-users] Performance of the Racket reader

> On Jun 1, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Steve Byan's Lists > wrote: > > Hi Jon, > >> On May 31, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Steve Byan's Lists >> wrote: >> >>> On May 31, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Jon Zeppieri wrote: >>> >>> >>> This way,

Re: [racket-users] Html to text, how to obtain a rough preview

Aside on a security issue with some example code... I know in this case it was being done as prototype/experiment, which is perfectly fine, but since people often learn from code they see on the email list, we should probably mention... (system/exit-code (string-append

Re: [racket-users] Performance of the Racket reader

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Jon Zeppieri wrote: > > >> On Jun 1, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Steve Byan's Lists >> wrote: >> >> Hi Jon, >> On May 31, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Steve Byan's Lists wrote: On May

Re: [racket-users] Performance of the Racket reader

> On Jun 1, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Steve Byan's Lists > wrote: > > Hi Jon, > >>> On May 31, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Steve Byan's Lists >>> wrote: >>> >>> On May 31, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Jon Zeppieri wrote: >>> >>> So, for

Re: [racket-users] Performance of the Racket reader

Hi Jon, > On May 31, 2017, at 6:41 PM, Steve Byan's Lists > wrote: > >> On May 31, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Jon Zeppieri wrote: >> >> So, for example: >> >> (define (map-trace stat%-set in-port) >> (for/fold ([sexp-count 0]) >>

Re: [racket-users] Performance of the Racket reader

> On Jun 1, 2017, at 12:25 AM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Steve Byan's Lists wrote on 05/31/2017 10:05 PM: >> I'd appreciate a short example of what you mean by using `apply` and >> `lambda` to destructure the list. > > I'll babble more than you want here, in case anyone

Re: [racket-users] Html to text, how to obtain a rough preview

Thanks you all so much for your help! Philip McGrath's method seems to overall work best, although many sites create a parsing error. However, I found a potentially better solution on linux that I might use if I can get it to work cross-platform. There is an ingenious tool called gnome-web-photo

Re: [racket-users] Racket for Kids in 2017

Matthias, thanks a lot for the suggestions. I'll go over the Bootstrap material (Algebra, Bootstrap:1) with her, quickly. And then we'll combine HtDP with Realm, being aware that we might really want to focus on HtDP initially if Realm gets difficult. The adult (me) will be there. Thanks