[racket-dev] Revision to the Language Dialog

The DrRacket-based languages have access to the port. So they can get
the actual characters from it.

Not "The Racket (meta-)Language" ;)

I think I'll not color things blue, as that would look strange in this
context; indentation seems to serve the same role and I think I can do
something like what you suggest.

Robby

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
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> I second Sam's suggestions.
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> -- I would use "The Racket Language" for the first line of the first item
>         then I would have in blue "Use #lang to Specify the Desired Dialect"
>         then I would list some candidates, possible as radio buttons
>         * racket/base (for scripting)
>         * racket (for programming)
>         * slideshow (for academicing)
>         * typed/racket (for power users)
>         * others (specified manually by programmer)
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> I agree with Robby that *SLs probably have to reject (module ...) expressions
> EXCEPT that I don't see how they can get hold of the information that the
> programmer wrote down (other than guessing from the second position in
> the module expression but that sounds bad).
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> On Nov 5, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
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>> On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Robby Findler
>> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>>> There was a discussion a while back on revising the language dialog
>>> (I've lost track of the thread since I started hacking on the dialog;
>>> apologies).
>>
>> The thread starts here:
>> http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=12642 and continues
>> here: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@racket-lang.org/msg05730.html
>>
>>> I've just pushed something based on that discussion. Please let me
>>> know what you think.
>>
>> I like the new dialog a lot.  I think it could be improved with some
>> of the suggestions made in the thread.  Three I like in particular:
>>
>> - Make the language for "teaching" and "#lang" more parallel.  This
>> could help emphasize that the first option is really a language
>> choice.  So either change "Teaching language" to "Use a teaching
>> language", or change the first option to "Standard language" (or
>> "normal" or something else like that).
>>
>> - Add some example #lang lines under the #lang option.  These could
>> even be actual choices, which edit the buffer if it's a new one --
>> `racket`, `racket/base`, `typed/racket`, `slideshow` are good
>> candidates.
>>
>> - Allow the presence of a #lang line to override the language dialog,
>> or at least give an error that's more helpful than currently.
>>
>> --
>> sam th
>> samth at ccs.neu.edu
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