[racket-dev] 5.2.0.1: displayln appears to write to console from where drracket was launched

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 19 18:14:53 EDT 2011

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Matthias Felleisen
<matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
>
>> That sounds cool to me. Now that I think about it, I think we used to
>> have something like this (it was a mixin tied to a specific language,
>> not something that worked for all #lang languages) but it was back
>> before we had the macro system to support it, I think.
>>
>> I imagine it would work as by having an alternative to "run" that
>> would just put you somehow into level 1.
>
> That's precisely what I imagine.
>
> Better still. It would be hidden all the time unless explicitly opened.
> You could then use it to perhaps inspect what live CS really 'thinks.'

Yes, that seems doable, too. Probably we're missing something like
"module->namespace" where you can specify a phase level. Or maybe
there is a way to do it already(?).

Robby


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