[plt-dev] Which image.ss?

Is a 2htdp/image option going to be added to the preinstalled teachpacks list sometime soon, like by the end of the summer? (Am just wondering whether to introduce students to teachpacks at all, or just have them use the require form consistently.)

--- nadeem

On May 26, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> You guessed correctly. You got htdp/image.
> 
> Please use the require form.
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Wednesday, May 26, 2010, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
>> When you choose "Add teachpack..." from the "Language" menu and select "image.ss" is it supposed to use htdp/image or 2htdp/image? If the latter, why does this:
>>   (bitmap "tugboat.jpg")
>> produce the error:
>>   bitmap: name is not defined, not a parameter, and not a primitive name
>> 
>> while, if instead of using the teachpack dialog, you use "require":
>>   (require 2htdp/image)
>>   (bitmap "tugboat.jpg")
>> it works fine.
>> 
>> --- nadeem
>> 
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