[racket-dev] Racket breaking and exiting

From: Eduardo Bellani (ebellani at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 2 00:39:52 EDT 2011

I think I understand you, but in that case it should report the
undefined reference and stay on the repl, no?

Thanks everyone of the prompt answers.

On 06/01/2011 08:37 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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