[plt-dev] `rico' and ".rkt"

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Tue Feb 16 11:21:36 EST 2010

On Feb 16, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Feb 16, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> >> > (a) a racket file is in sexpr syntax only for
> >> > some specific #lang lines,
> >>
> >> Those are the only syntaxes that get the '.ss' suffix, though.
> >
> > (Um... "No"?  Even a certain language that you should be familiar
> > with is in extended sexpr syntax.)
> 
> Exactly - all of the files that use '.ss' are in sexpr syntax.

I suspect that #{foo : Integers} is not something that many schemers
would think of as "sexpr syntax".


> >> Scribble files, for example, have their own suffix, as do
> >> JavaScript/Datalog/ACL2/etc.
> >
> > In that case they might be broken because of this.  (But at least
> > for datalog I don't think that compiling it is desired.)
> 
> Broken by what?  By keeping the file suffixes the same?

Broken by using their own suffix.

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