[racket-dev] plea for short planet syntax in student languages?

From: Nadeem Abdul Hamid (nadeem at acm.org)
Date: Sun Nov 13 22:04:12 EST 2011

Thank you very much for this!

The documentation for *SL needs updating to reflect support for the
short planet syntax, e.g.
  http://docs.racket-lang.org/htdp-langs/beginner.html?q=require#(form._((lib._lang/htdp-beginner..rkt)._require))

--- nadeem

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I've just now pushed a change for this.
>
> Robby
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Clements
> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>> I'm using the rsound planet package in beginning student languages, and requiring them to type
>>
>> (require (planet "main.rkt" ("clements" "rsound.plt 2 6")))
>>
>> at the top of every file is a bit painful.
>>
>> Would it be difficult to support the shorter
>>
>> (require (planet clements/rsound))
>>
>> syntax in the student languages?
>>
>> John
>>
>>


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