[racket] learn racket in 10 minutes

From: Roger Rousseau (th3rac25 at gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 17 17:05:58 EDT 2013

Hello

This is now corrected.
Eli's contributions have been merged and the online website has been updated

Thanks everybody

R


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Stephen De Gabrielle <
stephen.degabrielle at acm.org> wrote:

> Looks good.
>
> Weirdly the download is a .py instead of .rkt :
>
> >Get the code: learnracket.py
>
>
> --
> 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------
> >>> Tobias Hammer
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> >>> Tel.: 08153/28-1487
> >>> Mail: tobias.hammer at dlr.de
> >>>
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