[racket] Quarter-circle in upper right of Definitions window?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 18 05:03:53 EDT 2012

Someday I hope to make check syntax work better in situations like
that, but in the meantime, you can also hash-quote identifiers too,
ie:

#lang racket
#'lambda

will make CS find the docs.

Robby

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Laurent <laurent.orseau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fantastic!
> Thank you very much, I prefer it over my plugin, because it automatically
> gives the doc for the correct identifier.
> Just too bad it doesn't appear when syntax-check cannot validate due to
> missing parentheses. Maybe that will make me change my coding style to add
> closing parens automatically.
>
> Laurent
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:01 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>>
>> > It will appear when the online check syntax finds some documentation
>> > for the identifier at the insertion point. If you edit the identifier,
>> > it will disappear (but it may reappear if you move onto another
>> > identifier it knows about).
>> >
>> > Generally speaking, it should match the contents of the blue boxes in
>> > the documentation (eg a function contract or a macro's grammar spec).
>>
>> What Robby's telling you only indirectly is that you will never again call
>> "take" with the arguments in the wrong order. :)
>>
>> John
>>
>> >
>> > Robby
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Prabhakar Ragde <plragde at uwaterloo.ca>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Sorry if this is a dumb question. This small quarter-circle, with an
>> >> arrow
>> >> in it, appears from time to time, and then disappears. It contains some
>> >> links to documentation. I cannot tell what is causing it to appear and
>> >> what
>> >> causes it to disappear...? Thanks. --PR
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