samdphillips

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1. 1.▲
   by samdphillips 10mo ago

   > nice struct syntax I am curious how you would change the struct syntax?
2. 2.▲
   by samdphillips 1y ago

   > - Is there a LISP dialect that doesn't suffer from this problem? I am not sure what problem you are referring to. Racket has been actively developed since the mid-90s.
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   by samdphillips 1y ago

   No, it is dynamically typed. The annotations work like run time contracts.
4. 4.▲
   by samdphillips 2y ago

   The easiest way would be to rename the imported names #lang rhombus import rhombus: only: fun ... rename fun as fn rename ... as … open fn all_same([str0, str, …]): all(str0 == str, …)
5. 5.▲
   by samdphillips 2y ago

   Python with extensible syntax and not afraid of functional programming.
6. 6.▲
   by samdphillips 5y ago

   You may be able to run it with Xvfb. https://github.com/jeapostrophe/racket-langserver/issues/45 https://github.com/Eugleo/magic-racket/issues/29
7. 7.▲
   by samdphillips 5y ago

   You're critique is valid. `length` `vector-length` and `string-length` are from the very monomorphic old Scheme libraries. The Racket module system does provide ways to use the names you want without having to change the core language
8. 8.▲
   by samdphillips 5y ago

   Matthew has been working on a prototype ( https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming/pull/163 ) that works on the current snapshot version of Racket. It is possible to use to write some basic things and mo