[plt-dev] language dialog

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
> 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)"

Well, we'd been talking about this internally for a while before that
thread started, but yes.

> 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).
Right. The revised dialog is supposed to help with that. At an SVN
repository near you. :)

Robby