[plt-scheme] Formlet in web app examples

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 3 12:35:32 EDT 2010

They are very good for extremely short examples like add two numbers though:

http://github.com/plt/racket/blob/master/collects/web-server/default-web-root/htdocs/servlets/examples/add-formlets.rkt

Jay

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ya those functions were ideas that I thought would be useful but
> really aren't that convenient to use in practice.
>
> Jay
>
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
>> OK that's helpful, thanks.
>>
>> Well, I was actually trying to figure out how embed-formlet would be used -- the docs for that and send/formlet seemed a little terse to me. But I see your example constructs the form action and calls formlet-process explicitly to extract results.
>>
>> --- nadeem
>>
>>
>> On Jun 3, 2010, at 12:19 PM, Jay McCarthy wrote:
>>
>>> A recent application I've been writing uses them:
>>>
>>> http://github.com/jeapostrophe/m8b/blob/master/go.rkt
>>>
>>> Do you just want SOME example or do you find something confusing about
>>> the documentation? (i.e. what can I do to improve the documentation
>>> other than linking an example?)
>>>
>>> Jay
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Nadeem Abdul Hamid <nadeem at acm.org> wrote:
>>>> Are there examples of formlet usage in web servlets somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> --- nadeem
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Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.byu.edu>
Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
http://teammccarthy.org/jay

"The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93


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