[Alice-users] Stuck In Circular Pothole

[Chris Rathman]

Got stuck for a while on the CTM Chapter #5 Elevator example.  Operating
under the tenuous theory that the fastest way to dig yourself out of a hole
is to widen it, I diverted off into another book for a bit: SICP.  Seems to
have done the trick since I finally figured out the problem with the Lift
software.  Dominic Fox has let me keep the translation for both book
examples on the CTM wiki.  The translated examples for the first chapter of
SICP can be found at:

http://www.codepoetics.com/wiki/index.php?title=Topics:SICP_in_other_languag
es:Alice_ML

Other than the use of the Random module in one of the functions, the code
should work equally well on both SML-NJ and Alice.

TAPL is the other book that I have set aside to work on, but since it's
already in a limited subset of CAML, it should be much easier to work with
for Alice.  These three books will likely keep me out of trouble for an
extended period of time.  :-)

Thanks
Chris Rathman