Racket Racket allows programmers to add new syntactic constructs in the same way that other languages permit the formulation of procedures, methods, or classes All you need to do is formulate a simple rule that rewrites a custom syntax to a Racket expression or definition
Racket Documentation Running raco docs (or Racket Documentation on Windows or Mac OS) may open a different page with local and user-specific documentation, including documentation for installed packages
The Racket Guide Chapter 2 provides a brief introduction to Racket From Chapter 3 on, this guide dives into details— covering much of the Racket toolbox, but leaving precise details to The Racket Reference and other reference manuals
1 Welcome to Racket Most likely, you’ll want to explore the Racket language using DrRacket, especially at the beginning If you prefer, you can also work with the command-line racket interpreter (see Running racket and gracket) and your favorite text editor (see Command-Line Tools and Your Editor of Choice)
Download Racket The distribution includes pre-built, platform-independent bytecode; it installs much faster than plain source, and it is also compatible with fast installs of additional Racket packages
The Racket Reference This manual defines the core Racket language and describes its most prominent libraries The companion manual The Racket Guide provides a friendlier (though less precise and less complete) overview of the language The source of this manual is available on GitHub
Getting Started - Racket The Racket Guide starts with a tutorial on Racket basics, and then it describes the rest of the Racket language Of course, you should feel free to mix and match the above two tracks, since there is information in each that is not in the other
4. 7 Symbols - Racket Symbols in The Racket Guide introduces symbols A symbol is like an immutable string, but symbols are normally interned, so that two symbols with the same character content are normally eq?
Quick: An Introduction to Racket with Pictures Racket is a lexically scoped language, which means that whenever an identifier is used as an expression, something in the textual environment of the expression determines the identifier’s binding