[racket] eli-tester (was "Using Racket to solve Professor Layton puzzles")

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 28 10:47:36 EDT 2011

There is no scribbled documentation. -- Matthias



On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> I don't think it's hacky at all. It's my favourite testing system. I'm
> not sure why it isn't more publicly documented. (There is
> documentation in the source file... however.)
> 
> Jay
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Rodolfo Carvalho <rhcarvalho at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I noticed that Jay used in his code an undocumented
>> module "tests/eli-tester" to write his test cases.
>> I liked the syntax, very convenient in some circumstances. However, I could
>> only find uses of that inside a comment
>> in ./collects/scribble/html/resource.rkt
>> Is it so hacky to be hidden and undocumented?
>> []'s
>> Rodolfo Carvalho
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 14:34, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> In the "Cute Uses of Racket" department, every morning I do a puzzle
>>> from the popular "Professor Layton" game series:
>>> 
>>> http://professorlaytonds.com/
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Layton
>>> 
>>> and sometimes it is convenient to do a computational search for the
>>> answer. I generally post these on my blog with the "Racket" and
>>> "Puzzle" tags:
>>> 
>>> http://jay--mccarthy.blogspot.com/search/label/Racket
>>> 
>>> You may find it cute, especially when you compare with a walkthrough:
>>> 
>>> http://professorlayton2walkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/11/puzzle148.html
>>> 
>>> vs
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://jay--mccarthy.blogspot.com/2011/07/professor-layton-and-diabolical-box_1114.html
>>> 
>>> Jay
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
>>> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
>>> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
>>> 
>>> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
> http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay
> 
> "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93
> 
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