From: Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@...>
Date: 2008-08-24T03:39:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Serializable Continuations in Ruby

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:22 PM, Patrick Li <patrickli_2001@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I would be very very happy if that turns out to be true.
> Is there a book that you can recommend to me to get started?
>
> I'm working through How to Design Programs right now, but it's not
> comprehensive enough. It doesn't even talk about threads and
> continuations, and skimps over the object system.
>
> Also, I'm using Dr.Scheme right now. Is there an environment that has
> syntax completion and documentation popups? .... besides emacs.... I
> can't stand emacs.
>
> -Patrick
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

HtDP is designed to use Scheme to teach programming, not to teach
Scheme programming.

If you are using the PLT Scheme implementation (included in Dr.
Scheme), you should check out the docs at doc.plt-scheme.org, the
guide (more accessible) and reference (more complete) there seem to
cover the topics you are interested in. Autocompletion in Scheme is
difficult because they don't have much externally imposed syntax
beyond S-expressions; that's the source of the power of the language.