[racket] Creating my own series of teaching languages

Another thing I'm a bit confused about is whether or not a #lang-based
language is considered to be module-based, as well. I always assumed they
were, since #lang is essentially sugar syntax for a module form, but the
Adding Languages section of the docs had two separate sections for these,
causing me to doubt that assumption. If they are different, would the
drracket:language:simple-module-based-language% approach work with
#lang-based languages? It shouldn't be an issue for me, since my goal is
to move away from the #lang syntax here, but it would still be nice to know
in the future.


On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Daniel Brady <dabrady at umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> After re-reading that section more closely, I realize that I understand
> what it's saying; the part that I'm unsure about is how to actually go
> about implementing the drracket:language:language<%> interface. It would
> be nice if a small example was shown (like the examples shown when
> implementing a reader language). I am also unsure of where this
> implementation should go in my language directory: should it be in its own
> file? in the same file as the language module? The documentation suggests
> that I might be interested in the predefined simple implementation of the
> interface, drracket:language:simple-module-based-language%, and I think
> that is what I am looking for, but again there is the question of where I
> should be using this in my language implementation.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Daniel Brady wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I've decided to undertake the project of creating a small language, and
>> then model the HtDP teaching languages by creating a hierarchical series of
>> versions of that language. My current approach is to just make each of them
>> a #lang language, but grouped together in a collection, and that's working
>> out fine. But I would like to see if I can do it in a similar way to the
>> HtDP languages, such that the user chooses the language from a group in the
>> Choose Language menu, and doesn't use #lang syntax.
>>
>> (I'm already asking about how to add a group of languages to that menu in
>> a different thread.)
>>
>> So I guess the question boils down to: *How can I take a group of #lang
>> languages and convert them to the teaching-language 'style', if you will?*
>> ~Daniel.
>>
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>>
>> So you read
>>
>>
>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/tools/adding-languages.html?q=drracket%20language%20menu#%28part._.Adding_.Arbitrary_.Languages_to_.Dr.Racket%29
>>
>> Can you explain where you get stuck and (if possible) why you're stuck
>> there? This would help us improve the docs and we can answer your
>> question(s). I think it is safe to conflate the two threads here.
>>
>> -- Matthias
>>
>> (p.s. I have done this language-menu thing only once, for The Little
>> Lisper languages, but never released it.)
>>
>
>
>
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