[racket] Racklog: asking data from user?

Thank you for this piece of very good advice! I will change the direction as you suggested, and it is good to know that the problem was not that I had missed something, but that my approach was not feasible.

Best,

-Mikko

On 12.4.2012, at 21:38, Jay McCarthy wrote:

> Using Racket predicates like that would be a very bad idea and hard to
> get working as you've discovered.
> 
> I think the correct approach is to wrap the Racklog program in a
> Racket program that makes queries of the *log and then asks questions
> of the user afterwards and repeats the query if necessary.
> 
> I think of *log as a database that exists at an arm's reach from the
> computation of import and so it shouldn't do too much work and
> definitely shouldn't do IO.
> 
> Jay
> 
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> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University
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> 
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