[plt-dev] language dialog

From: Grant Rettke (grettke at acm.org)
Date: Fri Jan 29 12:49:28 EST 2010

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>>> Yes I think that it would only make sense to people who already
>>>> understand the multi-lang thing.
>>>
>>> Oh, I see. Eli did some of that a while ago. If you set the language
>>> to module and don't type anything, you get "#lang scheme" put in there
>>> for you.
>>
>> Yes I appreciated and rely on that change.
>>
>> I thought that this change you made was motivated by people being
>> confused about what the whole "Choosing a Language" was all about.
>> Sorry to have bothered the thread.
>
> No, no bother! Just trying to turn the complaint into an action item
> (or understand the action item if it was there already).

I thought the change was made in response to this thread:

[plt-dev] Renaming Module to "Module (default)"

Once you "get" the dialog, you get it; but it seems to be an obstacle
for many. Not sure why. I have even talked to Schemers who find the
idea of multiple-languages baffling (not sure why).


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