[racket-dev] Adding the new plot library [was: Re: Plot?]

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 29 14:10:21 EDT 2011

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>> On Sep 28, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Neil Toronto wrote:
>>
>> > 3. Should Module 1's path be 'racket/plot'? I've also thought of
>> >    'new-plot' (which is a cute pun on "gnuplot" but inconsistent
>> >    with other names) and 'rackplot' (which is consistent with
>> >    'racklog' and 'rackunit'). Could also go with "omgraph" or
>> >    whatever. I'm open to suggestions.
>>
>> I like rackplot.
>
> (FWIW, I think that the simple "rackfoo" names where "foo" is some
> obvious name is already overused...)

I do too, but a) it is some nice uniformity and b) I'm not coming up
with any good puns. :)

Robby



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