[racket-dev] current-*-port

Matthias Felleisen wrote at 05/04/2012 10:41 AM:
> On May 4, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Laurent wrote
>> An interesting idea would be to count the number of times each identifier is used in the sources, and see how many characters would be saved by using different conventions.
>>      
> That sounds like a fantastic exercise for someone who is truly skilled at scripting the shell with all kinds of find/wc/add knowledge.

Heresy.  Racket is actually well-suited for this task.

(At the risk of stating the obvious... Well, you have to do some of the 
mechanics of directory tree traversal manually, unless someone's already 
written a "directory-fold" or similar.  Other than that, just call the 
reader for each Racket file, building a hash of symbols to appearance 
counts, then run down that hash and another of some candidate renaming 
scheme, doing the arithmetic.  A Unix shell script, on the other hand, 
would be kludgey even for an expert, and probably take one at least as 
long to write.)

Neil V.

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