[racket] How to view source code of procedures? MIT scheme "pp" equivalent?

From: Mark Watts (miraiwarren at gmail.com)
Date: Sat Dec 28 18:35:55 EST 2013

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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Scott Klarenbach <scott at pointyhat.ca>wrote:

> Matthias,
>
 ...

> As an aside:
>
>
>> This might be a MIT misunderstanding about the relationship between
>> Scheme and the lambda calculus. It is certainly not possible in general and
>> I see no pragmatic use case for an approximation.
>>
>
> It would be really nice to print the source code of a known procedure on
> the repl, in order to get a quick view of what it does.  Or, the "pa"
> function which prints out the arguments of a procedure is even more useful.
>
This isn't related to your main query, but it sounds like the functionality
of `pa' is served by function type signatures in Typed Racket.

-- 

Cheers,
Mark Watts
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
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