[racket-dev] Racket breaking and exiting

I am not sure how faithful drracket should be to racket. 
It's clearly doable. Question is whether it's desirable. 



On Jun 1, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Robby Findler wrote:

> DrRacket has more control than Racket does over how the repl interacts
> with it's environment so it is not broken in this manner. (unless you
> think this is desireable, to be more faithful?)
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> DrRacket behaves differently here. It silently ignores the expression as far as I can tell.
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:37 PM, John Clements wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 1, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Eduardo Bellani wrote:
>>> 
>>>> My racket breaks if the following code is executed:
>>>> 
>>>> (current-input-port (open-input-string "a"))
>>>> 
>>>> with the following message:
>>>> 
>>>> reference to undefined identifier: a
>>> 
>>> ?
>>> 
>>> That sounds like the right behavior to me, in an environment with a REPL.  That is, you set current-input-port to pull from the string "a", then you drop into the REPL, which reads from stdin, producing the string "a", which reads as a reference to the variable a.
>>> 
>>> No?
>>> 
>>> John Clements
>>> 
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