[racket] Matthew's "doc-define.rkt"

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:

> At Thu, 8 May 2014 20:40:35 +0200, Laurent wrote:
> > At the end of Matthew's (awesome and quite informative) "metaprogramming"
> > video [1] he uses a doc-string+contract `define`.
> >
> > Is the "doc-define.rkt" file available somewhere? Google only led me to
> the
> > corresponding paper [2] but I could not find the file in the archives.
>
> The complete implementation is below.As you can see, it's just enough
> to make the talk's example run.
>

Thanks!


>  > Also, I'm wondering why he chose not to show the usual in-source
> > documentation of Racket and instead went for something that is not built
> in
> > Racket as of today.
>
> The current in-source documentation tool is an experiment to figure out
> what we want and how it can work. I think the "doc-define.rkt" sketch
> better illustrates what we've figured out that we want --- not all in
> place, yet, but within reach --- and so it makes more sense in a talk.
>

Ooh, so this is still work in progress then? (sorry about my previous rant
in a different post about the doc system then, I thought it was just never
going to happen.)
This would be a much awaited feature! But certainly it's not easy to do
Right.
Beside third-party libs, are there current plans to have such an in-source
doc-string documentation feature? Or plans to work on it?

FWIW, I've also made a similar thing [1] for RWind, except that it's
currently only for use on the command line, but I was planning to have it
export to scribble/scrdoc too.
I was hoping that Matthew's doc-string `define` would give me some guidance
on how to do it properly ;)

@Greg and Neil: Thanks for your answers. I agree that terseness is not nice
for the new user, but I also worry about verbose definitions (since
defining forms is what a programmer does all day).

[1] https://github.com/Metaxal/rwind/blob/master/doc-string.rkt
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