[racket-dev] string<? error

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 7 16:40:27 EDT 2010

At Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:35:48 -0400, Stephen Chang wrote:
> Has anyone seen an error like this before:
> 
> string<?: expects type <string> as 1st argument, given: #f; other
> arguments were: "dcdf0433aca16ea2f5db9a003821f56a718d2da5"
> 
> I'm using an older version of racket, 5.0.0.6, but I havent seen the
> error until recently. I get the error when I run certain files in
> drracket.

Yes, it's a bug in the 5.0.0 series that is fixed in the 5.0.1 series.

> Also, I ran setup-plt and the error still occurs. Anyone have any
> ideas where the error is coming from?

I don't think we ever found a workaround, but you could double-check
this thread:

 http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/2010-July/003692.html



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