[plt-dev] language dialog, some minor changes & bugfixes

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> On Jan 29, Robby Findler wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> > On Jan 29, Robby Findler wrote:
>> >> PS: I changed the ^ in the regexp to .* so it works for things like
>> >>
>> >>   ;;;; fdask
>> >>   #lang scheme
>> >>
>> >> I assume that's what you'd meant?
>> >
>> > Oh right.  But it's probably better to allow only whitespace, and
>> > throw an error (ie, return "???") if there's some unexpected text
>> > (like some language that would have a `#!' in the name).
>>
>> That would make the above example break, no?
>
> I'm thinking of something like
>
>
>  #lang some-language #!bleh
>
> where the `#!bleh' is part of the `some-language' specification.

But the string is limited to what was consumed, so the regexp won't be
applied to that part of the string or so I thought.

Robby