7/19 Report

[Jim Shargo]

Today was a damned good day. We:
* Wrote a successful test of marks and regions
** This allows us to start working on motion and exploring other
functionality
* Got a rundown and some experience with the debugger
* Began specifying types for the groups, marks, and regions
** This is pretty much sweep one in our documentation sweeps
** This provides us at least arity, and, in some cases, full type checking
** We, frankly, feel a little more at home the more our interfaces mimic
signatures

We got to talk with Prof. Shivers about SCHEME internals and catch up on
our respective summers. He gave us an encouraging pep talk and, with the
way things are coming, we are feeling better. We're still massively
apprehensive about the Beast that is buffers, but, since we might be at
that point in a day or two, we were wondering where we should start
looking. Duncan?

Also--by the end of the day, Ryan and I were stoked about how far we'd
gotten and wanted to work on more. Duncan, could we branch on your git,
since now we're starting to get our stuff straight? We could manhandle
our dropbox onto the lab system, but it makes it easier and more
convenient if we're all synced there and are just a "git checkout" away.

-- Jim Shargo