[racket-dev] Revision to the Language Dialog

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 6 16:35:30 EST 2012

OH! I now get the confusion. Clicking on the teaching languages is the
way one interacts with that part of the dialog but the #lang lines are
just text and users of this thing will be completely confused by
non-parallelism.

Duh!

Hm.

Robby

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Thank you for the experiment. I am coming to two conclusions:
>  -- I think we're closer to getting it right
>  -- I am beginning to think we dont' ever wish to abolish it.
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Asumu Takikawa wrote:
>
>> On 2012-11-06 14:03:50 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>>> The "docs" links are meant to all be clickable (and I can certainly
>>> underline them). What were you expecting, exactly?
>>>
>>> I prefer not to make clicking on the "#lang .." part edit the
>>> definitions window; I think copy and paste is probably clearer to the
>>> user.
>>
>> I didn't actually expect the '#lang ...' to change anything, but I could
>> imagine thinking that it did and being confused. Similarly, it might not
>> be obvious that the teaching languages are clickable without some visual
>> distinction.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Asumu
>

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