[racket-dev] New error messages for *SL

If it is a click away and if the idea is that students got to B because they went thru A? 

I admit that there are instructors who use only ISL+ or ASL. But should we accommodate the special ones or the ones that use the language hierarchy as intended? 





On Jul 6, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> If you read the documentation as a textbook when you start
> programming, I can see wanting to see something that says "cond is the
> same as before". But, if you read the documentation as a reference
> when you have a problem it is frustrating to chase through a few links
> to get the "real" documentation.
> 
> Is that the idea, Guillaume?
> 
> Jay
> 
> 2011/7/6 Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>:
>> 
>> 
>> Why is it pedagogical to repeat information in the
>> ISL documentation that the BSL documentation already
>> presented?
>> 
>> -- Matthias
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:36 AM, Guillaume Marceau wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>> In the case of the HtDP languages, was the choice to duplicate all the
>>>> text deliberate, or was it a side-effect of some other change?
>>> 
>>> Yes, this was a deliberate move away from the no-duplication style
>>> used in the professional documentation, for pedagogical reasons.
>>> 
>>> At each language level, I gathered in a separate section called
>>> "Common Syntax" the forms that that level has in common with the
>>> previous level. The idea is to make it possible to get a quick sense
>>> of of the commonality between the levels, while giving the students
>>> confidence that documentation page they are looking at is
>>> comprehensive.
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