[racket] syntax, differently

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 31 11:47:08 EDT 2010

On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Robby Findler wrote:

> You mean that, right as they cross into the 80th column you hit return?
> 
> Judging from my experience with pretty-print (which does similar
> things sometimes), that could be bad news.
> 
> For example
> 
> (+ 1 2 3 4 5 6 <slightly-less than columns of this> (+ <column80>
> 
> a return at that point isn't going to help much.


Yes, I fully expect that non-pretty things will happen but 
I also expect students will begin to respect the boundary 
and hit return soon enough. 

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> ... to get started experimenting.


I think experimenting means releasing it to students. 


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