[racket-dev] [plt] Push #22081: master branch updated

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 27 16:42:30 EST 2011

Do you mean (take "nonlist" 0)? That's '() in regular Racket, I think
to accommodate improper lists.

C:\Users\Administrator\git\exp\plt>Racket.exe
Welcome to Racket v5.0.99.7.
> (take "nonlist" 0)
'()

Robby

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> What should be the result of (take 0 "nonlist")
>
> In the spirit of this bug report, I think it should be an error
> http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=11458
>
> But right now it evaluates to the empty list.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> Oh sorry, didnt read carefully. I now see that it wasnt my push you
>> were replying to.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> That wasnt the bug that I was fixing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>>>> At Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:07:32 -0500, eli at racket-lang.org wrote:
>>>>> +    (let ([n0 (! n)])
>>>>> +      (unless (exact-nonnegative-integer? n)
>>>>> +        (raise-type-error 'take "non-negative exact integer" 0 n l))
>>>>
>>>> Still committing changes with no tests.
>>>>
>>>> Still broken:
>>>>
>>>>  > (list-ref (take (car (list 1)) (list 2)) 0)
>>>>  take: expects type <non-negative exact integer> as 1st argument, given:
>>>>  #<promise!1>; other arguments were: '(2)
>>>>
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