[racket] What are the roles for teachpacks these days?

Yeah. Could we just have the Language menu and Teachpacks fade away?

I've been bitten so many times by the hidden stuff that I think it's
easier to have students explicitly write

#lang htdp/bsl
(require 2htdp/image)

at the top of files. I'd prefer something like #lang beginner, but I
don't really care so long as it's explicit and not too complicated.

Todd

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I don't have any plans to make the menu-based teachpacks work with
> #lang languages. They all have require-based interfaces, tho (eg
> (require 2htdp/image) and (require htdp/image)); are those not
> sufficient somehow?
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
>> So let's say that I'm designing a new #lang-implemented language.  I'd
>> love to automatically work with teachpacks and other external modules.
>>  So I can get require-like functionality with my language, and that
>> seems to work ok.
>>
>> But when I click on Language/Add Teachpack, DrRacket responds by
>> saying that teachpacks only work with the teaching languages.
>>
>> What's required for a #lang-implemented language to be treated as a
>> teaching language, and what does it need to implement to get teachpack
>> support?  Thanks!
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