[racket-dev] Racket breaking and exiting

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Eduardo Bellani <ebellani at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I understand you, but in that case it should report the
> undefined reference and stay on the repl, no?

The next thing after `a' on the port is end-of-file, so the REPL
decides that everything is done, and exits.

> 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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