[plt-scheme] Turtles module gives an error with 4.2

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 5 08:33:32 EDT 2009

The define-compound-unit/infer bug has been fixed in 4.2.1. Thanks for
pointing out the docs typos.

Robby

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:40 AM, Pekka Karjalainen<p3k at iki.fi> wrote:
> If I write the following two lines in DrScheme 4.2 and press Run, it
> gives me an error message.
>
> #lang scheme
> (require graphics/turtles)
>
> The results is the following message.
>
>>define-compound-unit/infer: untagged initialization dependent signature mred^ is
>>supplied from a later unit with link temp3
>
> Another attempt. This program works and shows the "spyro-gyra" image.
> I suppose the problem is with the traditional turtles module, since
> the two lines are all it takes for the error to come up.
>
> #lang scheme
> (require graphics/value-turtles)
> (require graphics/value-turtles-examples)
> (spyro-gyra (turtles 200 200))
>
> This happens to me both with 4.2 that I installed on Windows with the
> installer and another 4.2 that I built from the source distrib on my
> laptop with Ubuntu 8.10.
>
> Finally, I spotted a typographical error: The documentation has a
> wrong name for the value-turtles-examples module on the Value Turtles
> page (doc/turtles/Value_Turtles.html). It doesn't have the s at the
> end of turtles under the heading "2.1 Examples," saying "(require
> graphics/value-turtle-examples)". The text below is missing the same s
> from the name too.
>
> Pekka Karjalainen
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