[racket] using scribble/eval in conjunction with scribble/lp

From: Joel McCracken (mccracken.joel at gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 16 23:48:50 EST 2014

I'm glad there is a repository issue -- that's where I tried without
success. I tried the build available right now (3bb896d) without
success, but will look again tomorrow.

This is the reason I think Racket is so great. You were able to create
the lp language version 2 as an afterthought. Awesome.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> ... after the next build, at least.
>
> Problems related to the repository split have prevented the snapshots
> from being up-to-date for the past few days, but I'm optimistic that
> the next snapshot will be right.
>
> At Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:54:06 -0500, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
>>
>> You probably want the current snapshot:
>>
>>   http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/snapshots/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Joel McCracken <mccracken.joel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Forwarding to users, since I forgot to reply-all.
>> >
>> >
>> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > From: Joel McCracken <mccracken.joel at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:27 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [racket] using scribble/eval in conjunction with scribble/lp
>> > To: Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu>
>> >
>> >
>> > Hmm, I'm having trouble finding this new release of Racket that will
>> > allow a #lang scribble/lp2 -- I'll keep looking later. This is awesome
>> > though, thank you for the prompt response!
>> >
>> > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> >> At Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:49:38 -0700, Matthew Flatt wrote:
>> >>> Meanwhile, I'll work on changing `scribble/lp` so that a module
>> >>> implemented with `#lang scribble/lp` can be passed directly to
>> >>> Scribble.
>> >>
>> >> That turned out to be `scribble/lp2`, since the changes would be
>> >> incompatible with existing uses of `scribble/lp`.
>> >>
>> >> With the development versions of the "drracket" and "scribble"
>> >> packages, and with the program below, you can click "Run" to run the
>> >> program and interact with `f`, or you can click one of the "Scribble"
>> >> buttons to render the document.
>> >>
>> >> ----------------------------------------
>> >>
>> >> #lang scribble/lp2
>> >> @(require scribble/base
>> >>          scribble/eval)
>> >>
>> >> @title{An Example}
>> >>
>> >> This would be a @bold{wonderful} way to accomplish things!
>> >>
>> >> @chunk[<*>
>> >>        (define (f x)
>> >>          <f-body>)]
>> >>
>> >> @chunk[<f-body>
>> >>        (* x x)]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> And then, I could show an example:
>> >>
>> >> @(begin
>> >>   (require syntax/location)
>> >>   (define here (quote-source-file))
>> >>   (define evaluator (make-base-eval))
>> >>   (evaluator `(begin
>> >>                (dynamic-require '(file ,here) #f)
>> >>                (current-namespace
>> >>                 (module->namespace '(file ,here))))))
>> >>
>> >> @examples[
>> >>        #:eval evaluator
>> >>        (f 10)
>> >> ]
>> >>
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