Jacqueline Firth

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> I can see why this may confuse lots of people however **and require explaining it to them** Emphasis mine. In my experience, the costs of _teaching_ a notation dominate...

Trailing comma support works best when there's an autoformatter involved, so it gets users better diffs without them having to actually think about where to put trailing commas and where...

It's possible. I don't know of a good fix for that problem. But I don't think "we can never change anything about how tag links are created" is an acceptable...

> In general: The fact that Racket Mode more strongly "surfaces in the UI" annotations about unused items, with a configurable font, is for some users a positive feature. Very...

Please do not fix the problem of "name is too long" with "....so I'll abbreviate parts of it!" After someone mentally expands the abbreviation, they're left with a name of...

Also most of my qualms with `parameterize` are fixed by just indenting it differently: ```scheme (parameterize ([current-input-port ...] [current-output-port ...]) (do-some-stuff) (do-other-stuff)) ``` Long names are way less irritating if...

@spdegabrielle Good idea! I don't seem to have issue-labeling powers though, and I don't know who would.

Survey questions about editing racket code should also ask about the other, less controlled environments where code viewing and editing happens: 1. Do you write racket code snippets in Markdown?...

I think incremental definitions probably shouldn't work across module boundaries. Otherwise there's no way to tell what modules you need to import in order to get a complete definition.