Re: [racket-users] Running racket on a #lang-less module-less file?

2016-05-05 Thread William Hatch
I've always thought that should be possible -- for instance, if someone were to implement some pre-existing language in Racket, it would be nice to be able to say "require this using #lang X" so that it can be parsed and bound correctly. Eg. if you had a Javascript implementation and some

Re: [racket-users] DSL to C code generation with symbolic computations en route

2016-04-25 Thread William Hatch
Late to the party, because I've been ignoring most of my email for a week. I'm the one at the U of U that has started working on the problem as Jay mentioned. But with classes and other study on related, tangentially related, or simply tangential topics I haven't gone beyond the very simplest of

Re: [racket-users] Re: Case for net/url.rkt to read HTTP proxy servers from environment

2015-10-13 Thread William Hatch
I would like to see it fall back on HTTP_PROXY if PLT_HTTP_PROXY is not found. It is annoying that the cases vary (eg. wget uses http_proxy and https_proxy, curl uses http_proxy and HTTPS_PROXY), but maybe we could prefer the one in all caps and fall back on lowercase. My last job was behind a