[racket-dev] plea for short planet syntax in student languages?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 14 08:47:04 EST 2011

Oh, sorry about that. I've pushed a fix.

Robby

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
> Thank you very much for this!
>
> The documentation for *SL needs updating to reflect support for the
> short planet syntax, e.g.
>  http://docs.racket-lang.org/htdp-langs/beginner.html?q=require#(form._((lib._lang/htdp-beginner..rkt)._require))
>
> --- nadeem
>
> On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> I've just now pushed a change for this.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John Clements
>> <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>>> I'm using the rsound planet package in beginning student languages, and requiring them to type
>>>
>>> (require (planet "main.rkt" ("clements" "rsound.plt 2 6")))
>>>
>>> at the top of every file is a bit painful.
>>>
>>> Would it be difficult to support the shorter
>>>
>>> (require (planet clements/rsound))
>>>
>>> syntax in the student languages?
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>



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