[plt-dev] request for typed library

Let's do it. All it means is that I (and others) have to remember the  
longer name.



On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> What would happen if we threw it out now (on the trunk, not on the
> release branch)?
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Matthias Felleisen
> <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Kathryn Gray wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 17 Mar 2009, at 1:53:33, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 17, 2009, at 8:58 AM, Kathryn Gray wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The test-engine/scheme-tests.ss can be used as a library by  
>>>>> programs
>>>>> that aren't written in the teaching language currently; the  
>>>>> test results
>>>>> from this library appear in print statements instead of a  
>>>>> window in
>>>>> DrScheme.
>>>>
>>>> So does htdp/testing ... (test) . Why are we deprecating htdp/ 
>>>> testing
>>>> again?
>>>
>>>
>>> The functionality doesn't need to (and isn't) going away.
>>>
>>> All htdp/testing does is reexport items from the other library,  
>>> but unlike
>>> test-engine/scheme-tests it can easily be added by students as a  
>>> teach pack.
>>>
>>> If a student does this, and then calls (test) manually; all of  
>>> their test
>>> results appear twice. Why is this a desirable behavior to have?  
>>> Why should
>>> we be letting students add this as a teach pack?
>>
>>
>> I remembered that it was a re-export of functionality. I had  
>> forgotten about
>> the testing-twice part.
>>
>> Let's print "deprecated, require test-engine/scheme-tests" instead  
>> from
>> htdp/testing. And by 5.0 we throw it out.
>>
>> Thanks -- Matthias
>>
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