[plt-dev] Re: check-expect bug

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Michael Sperber
<sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
>
> Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> writes:
>
>> -- the call to exn? in that with handlers should probably be
>> exn:fail?. The only difference here is probably that breaks will not
>> be handled (when it is exn:fail?) which means that clicking the stop
>> button won't make the code go into this handler, which seems like a
>> good thing. I have committed this change.
>
> Sure.  I kind of liked the behavior with the user break, but it's not a
> big deal.

But if I double click the break button (for example), it won't work;
it will just corrupt the stack trace (not that the stack trace matters
for the teaching languages of course).

>> -- the "uncaught exn: #f" message seems to stem from the fact that the
>> body of this function always calls (raise #f) when a test case fails.
>> I have no idea why it does that, but I changed (raise exn) to (when
>> exn (raise exn)). Someone who knows this code (if a single such a
>> person exists) should probably check that over. This is what I did to
>> fix PR 10438. I have also committed this change, but in a second
>> commit.
>
> I sure am responsible for this; I don't know what got into me.  Sorry.
>
> I think everything related to `check-expect' is OK now:
>
> PR10435: Pilot error; I've closed this after clarifying the documentation.
> PR10437: Fixed by Kathy
> PR10438: Robby's fix was good, I've clarified the code a wee bit.
> PR10440: Like everyone else, I can't reproduce.
>
> Thanks to Robby and Kathy for fixing things!
>
> Please be sure to let me know if there's anything else that needs
> fixing.

Thanks for your help, Mike.

Robby