[racket-dev] Redirecting documentation links

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Fri May 6 11:09:22 EDT 2011

I am with Sam on this one. 

On May 6, 2011, at 11:06 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I think the right way to do this is to use defidthing with a minimal
>> description and a pointer over to the racket for.
> 
> That's certainly possible, but I don't think it's the right user
> experience for someone programming in Typed Racket.  If they click
> Check Syntax, I'd like the documentation option to go directly to what
> they want, rather than through an indirection.
> 
>> Unless it is literally the same binding (re-exported), in which case
>> you can make scribble do that.
>> 
>> (Macros can tell the difference, after all.)
> 
> Macros can tell a lot of differences that we don't reflect in the
> documentation (such as being the same binding, re-exported).
> -- 
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu
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