[racket-dev] Strange problem with `check-docs' and `#:use-sources'

Is the with-handlers that typed/racket exports the same identifier as
the one exported by racket, or is it a different binding?

Robby

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> To really know what is going on, one has to trace thru the re-provides
>> for each of these identifiers and match them up to the
>> declare-exporting declarations.
>>
>> In the declaration below, you're essentially saying "any identifiers
>> documented in this module should appear to come from the
>> typed/scheme/base, typed/scheme, and typed-scheme modules, but they
>> are really actually exported from one of the modules listed in the
>> #:use-sources keyword" which means, to the documentation system that
>> any module that re-exports an identifier from, say,
>> typed-scheme/base-env/base-types-extra, will have its documentation
>> attached to the docs in the file with the declare-exporting below and
>> the docs system will then point userse to typed/scheme/base.
>>
>> I don't think that this is what you want, since you probably want to
>> to point people to typed/racket.
>
> That's not what's going on here, although you couldn't tell that from
> my email.  That `declare-exporting' is in a subsection which only
> documents `typed/scheme' etc, and not any of the actual forms in Typed
> Racket.
>
>> To know what the right answer is for the declare-exporting below, I'd
>> have to know how typed/racket fits into the picture. In particular, is
>> it re-exporting things from typed/scheme? Or from those helper modules
>> you have listed? Or from some other place?
>
> It's probably easier to just consider `typed/racket/base' and
> `typed/scheme/base' here.  Both of them export identifiers from the
> modules listed in the `declare-exporting' declaration. For example,
> `with-handlers' is defined in `typed-scheme/base-env/prims'.
>
> Here's what the documentation for `typed/racket/base' looks like:
>
> @(defmodulelang* (typed/racket/base typed/racket)
>                 #:use-sources
>                    (typed-scheme/typed-scheme
>                     typed-scheme/base-env/prims
>                     typed-scheme/base-env/extra-procs
>                     typed-scheme/base-env/base-types
>                     typed-scheme/base-env/base-types-extra))
>
> Also, I don't think this is a problem with the general setup of
> documentation for Typed Racket.  In particular, the identifier
> `define-type' is defined in the same module as `with-handlers', and it
> gets handled properly by Scribble, by DrRacket, and by `check-docs'.
> You can see this by searching for `define-type' in the documentation,
> or for `U', which is defined in the same module as `->'.
>
> Instead, I think the problem is that `with-handlers' and `->' are both
> identifiers exported from `racket', and this is causing some sort of
> confusion in the Scribble doc system, but I don't know exactly what,
> and I'm therefore confused about how to try to fix it.  Of course, it
> might be something totally different, also -- the vagaries of Scribble
> linking are still opaque to me.
>
>
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <samth at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>>> Currently, the documentation completeness checker (a wonderful tool;
>>> thanks, Robby!) for Typed Racket complains that `->' and
>>> `with-handlers' are not documented when provided from `typed/scheme',
>>> `typed/scheme/base', and `typed-scheme'.  However, these identifiers
>>> are fine when provided from `typed/racket', and are both defined in
>>> modules where `check-docs' finds the documentation for other things
>>> just fine, such as `define:' and `All'.  The documentation looks like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> (declare-exporting typed/scheme/base typed/scheme typed-scheme
>>>                    #:use-sources
>>>                    (typed-scheme/typed-scheme
>>>                     typed-scheme/base-env/prims
>>>                     typed-scheme/base-env/extra-procs
>>>                     typed-scheme/base-env/base-types
>>>                     typed-scheme/base-env/base-types-extra))
>>>
>>> where `->' is defined in `typed-scheme/base-env/base-types-extra' and
>>> `with-handlers' is defined in `typed-scheme/base-env/prims'.
>>>
>>> Is there something else I should be doing here?  Is there a bug in
>>> `check-docs'?
>>> --
>>> sam th
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>>
>
>
>
> --
> sam th
> samth at ccs.neu.edu
>