[racket-dev] [racket] getting symbol documentation URL quickly within Emacs

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 28 09:58:34 EDT 2011

On Jun 28, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:

>> (2) things from libraries can be excluded from specific languages
>>     because we know they won't run
> 
> That won't work right too...  Should I list a whole bunch of modules
> for my language?  What happens when one of these modules becomes
> compatible when I or the module's author change something?


So you're working in #lang racket as a naive Racket beginner, and you find some r6rs library that uses set-car!. Hey what a great idea! That enables me to do all the things I dutifully learned in a data structure course on linked lists. So I require it and it fails ... 

Yes I think we should be able to specify the list of 'good' xor 'bad' libraries, whichever is shorter. 


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