In the last episode, on Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:12, Arjen Logghe wrote:
> Thanks all for you replies. I'll be using SICP as my first book and
> installed DrScheme, which seems a nice editor. Didn't like GNU/MIT
> Scheme because of the Emacs editor, very confusing.
Your choice. Personally I found the lack of a facility to go back and amend
a function I'd already written highly irritating having been exposed to
SLIME.
Hourses for corses.
Jeff.
On Fri, 25 May 2007 00:32:18 +0100, Jeff Rollin
<··············@gmail.com> wrote:
>In the last episode, on Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:12, Arjen Logghe wrote:
>
>> Thanks all for you replies. I'll be using SICP as my first book and
>> installed DrScheme, which seems a nice editor. Didn't like GNU/MIT
>> Scheme because of the Emacs editor, very confusing.
>
>Your choice. Personally I found the lack of a facility to go back and amend
>a function I'd already written highly irritating having been exposed to
>SLIME.
That's what the editor's definition pane is for ;)
George
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In the last episode, on Friday 25 May 2007 05:36, George Neuner wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2007 00:32:18 +0100, Jeff Rollin
> <··············@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>In the last episode, on Wednesday 23 May 2007 19:12, Arjen Logghe wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks all for you replies. I'll be using SICP as my first book and
>>> installed DrScheme, which seems a nice editor. Didn't like GNU/MIT
>>> Scheme because of the Emacs editor, very confusing.
>>
>>Your choice. Personally I found the lack of a facility to go back and
>>amend a function I'd already written highly irritating having been exposed
>>to SLIME.
>
> That's what the editor's definition pane is for ;)
> George
Sorry, I meant correcting a mistake like
(fahr-cels 10)
which should be
(fahr->cels 10)
in the EDP.
On Fri, 25 May 2007 10:38:00 +0100, Jeff Rollin
<··············@gmail.com> wrote:
>In the last episode, on Friday 25 May 2007 05:36, George Neuner wrote:
>
>>>Personally I found the lack of a facility [in DrScheme] to go back and
>>>amend a function I'd already written highly irritating having been exposed
>>>to SLIME.
>>
>> That's what the editor's definition pane is for ;)
>
>Sorry, I meant correcting a mistake like
>
>(fahr-cels 10)
>
>which should be
>
>(fahr->cels 10)
>
>in the EDP.
DrScheme will never be anyone's favorite programming environment, but
it is functional enough that I don't see the problem in this case.
Editing works normally in the definition pane and the debugger will
drop you right at the site of a syntax error.
George
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