Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

2013-11-06 Thread Ben Duan
Thank you for your replies. I’m not currently implementing a language. But I’m very interested in how Racket works and why it is designed like this. So I want to read more about it. Ben On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > Ben, on the first site you can find my pap

Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

2013-11-05 Thread Matthias Felleisen
Ben, on the first site you can find my papers dating back to the time when I discovered prompt and functional continuations. The papers -- especially those with Dorai's name on them -- contain some examples on how to use them and what for but they mostly focus on 'design theory'. If you are i

Re: [racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

2013-11-05 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
In general, papers here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/ and also http://www.cs.utah.edu/~mflatt/publications/index.html and http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/ cover what's in Racket. For delimited continuations, the relevant paper is: http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/delim-cont/ Sam On

[racket] Resources for understanding Racket’s language model?

2013-11-04 Thread Ben Duan
Dear all, I have some difficulties understanding “1 Language Model” of the Racket Reference. I want some detailed explanations on some concepts like “Prompts, Delimited Continuations, and Barriers” etc. Do you have any recommended resources like papers or books for me to start with? Thanks,