[racket] learn racket in 10 minutes

From: Stephen De Gabrielle (stephen.degabrielle at acm.org)
Date: Wed Jul 17 04:19:00 EDT 2013

Looks good.

Weirdly the download is a .py instead of .rkt :

>Get the code: learnracket.py


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Stephen De Gabrielle



On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Roger Rousseau <th3rac25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I didn't realize Racket had "unless" already... I will change it to while.
>
> Adam has put the Racket version online: http://learnxinyminutes.com/
> But the syntax highlighting is wrong, it seems to be for Scheme rather than
> Racket
> There is syntax highlighting for Racket on Github, am I right ? ... I will
> chase that up with Adam
>
> In any case, any further suggestions are welcome...
> whether it be Racket code or text (motivating the use of Racket or
> explaining its constructs)
>
> Thanks
>
> R
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Carl Eastlund <cce at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>
>> An easy thing to add instead might be a while loop:
>>
>> (define-syntax-rule (while condition body ...)
>>   (let loop ()
>>     (when condition
>>       body ...
>>       (loop))))
>>
>> Carl Eastlund
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Tobias Hammer <tobias.hammer at dlr.de>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The unless macro seems a bit unfavorable as a macro with the same name
>>> and different semantics already exists in racket
>>>
>>> Tobias
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:55:38 +0200, Roger Rousseau <th3rac25 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks everybody for the suggestions
>>>>
>>>> I've followed most of them, except adding a section about "Units"
>>>> because I
>>>> felt there was already a lot to take in
>>>>
>>>> Amended version is here:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/voila/learnxinyminutes-docs/blob/master/racket.html.markdown
>>>>
>>>> I plan to send a pull request tonight... unless someone find some
>>>> glaring
>>>> mistakes
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again
>>>>
>>>> R
>>>
>>>
>>>
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