[racket] Exploratory programming?

From: Justin Zamora (justin at zamora.com)
Date: Tue Nov 30 15:02:03 EST 2010

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Luke Jordan <luke.jordan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, using DrRacket it's really really easy to interface with help, explore
> libraries, etc., at least as far as I have found for my humble needs.  It
> uses racket/doc/search/search-context.html.

The main problem with searching is that the indexing is not very good.
 For example, this query returns no matches:
http://docs.racket-lang.org/search/index.html?q=sine   This is
especially frustrating for students who know what kind of function
they want but don't know its name.

Justin


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