[racket] Getting started with R6RS

From: Andreas Rottmann (a.rottmann at gmx.at)
Date: Tue May 17 05:03:56 EDT 2011

Elliott Cable <me at ell.io> writes:

> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 1. You won't be able to put these in a single file and have it work.
>> That's probably what's causing your problem.  The R6RS doesn't specify
>> how libraries and top-level programs map to the file system.  In
>> Racket, each R6RS library and each top-level program should be in a
>> separate file.
>
> Really? Jesus, I thought modern tools like Racket were trying to move
> us *away* from the mistakes that Java et al. made. Maybe I was
> mistaken.
>
> On a more serious note: modular code, module systems in general, are
> great. Thousands of files in a single project, many of which are less
> than 100 lines of code, is *not* great. Multiple modules per file is
> an absolute must, in my humble non-Schemer (yet.) opinion. (-:
>
>
> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Marco Maggi <marco.maggi-ipsu at poste.it> wrote:
>> Elliott Cable wrote:
>>> I'm  new to  both  Racket and  Scheme;  I've been  reading
>>> through the R6RS, and I'm  trying to get started with some
>>> simple code.
>> You can  look at this simple  pure R6 package  which runs on
>> most of the implementations, Racket included:
>>
>> <http://github.com/marcomaggi/infix>
>
> I greatly appreciate that, Marco. I’ll give that a thorough
> exploration; that’s the exact sort of code I’m trying to write.
>
A few more links to R6RS code, if you decide you want to go down that
route:

- https://gitorious.org/wak
- https://github.com/rotty/spells
- https://github.com/rotty/ocelotl
- https://github.com/rotty/sbank
- https://github.com/rotty/irclogs
- https://github.com/rotty/conjure
- http://home.gna.org/dorodango/

Regards, Rotty
-- 
Andreas Rottmann -- <http://rotty.yi.org/>



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