Place of Scheme+ in the Racket documentation web site

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Hi,

in the documentation of Racket web site i see that Scheme+ is mentioned in the "Miscellaneous Libraries" portion.
I remember, i mentioned first Scheme+ as a library in discussion years ago, but this is an error, this should be considered now as a syntax extension of Scheme language that make of Scheme+ a language itself.

Because a library add function and macro in the language, but Scheme+ add infix language, square bracket indexing and more which require a special parser and so can be considered as a language (even if it remains 100% backward compatible with Scheme sexpr).

Also i have a lot of new idea that will be added in Scheme+ in the future to make it faster with a typing system that should save all the time in dispatching the way C++ compiler make it.
Also Scheme+ is not only Racket dependant, but the internal implementation make it run also for Guile , Kawa and i should update all this in the future and possibly port it to other Scheme implementations.

For this reason i would suggest to place Scheme+ in the Racket web site in the portion called " Other Languages in the Racket Environment " in the documentation.

Best Regards,

Damien

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I thought there was a way to specify where something appears on the main documentation page in the metadata in the info.rkt file but I’ve forgotten the exact mechanism.

I’ll keep looking

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I’ve found the Rhombus equivalent,

but the Racket version still eludes me
S.

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In the scribblings key, you would need to specify the category (scribblings). Here is one I found by visiting the package source from the documentation page of a package under "Other Languages in the Racket Environment": plait/info.rkt at 9593f84feec7c951cdc4a567a6f9f2adb986251b · mflatt/plait · GitHub.

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Thank you all.It worked well, i was able to show Scheme+ in Language and optionally Curly infix SRFIs in Parsing Library and the example about plait is interesting as i'm searching and studying some light typing system for scheme sexpr, i will surely have a look again at that and like that typing systems soon.

update: i forget to show the code solution, it is in info.rkt files:

(define scribblings '(("scribblings/Scheme-PLUS-for-Racket.scrbl" () (language))))

(define scribblings '(("scribblings/SRFI-105.scrbl" () (parsing-library))))
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