[racket-dev] current-read-interaction

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 15 18:22:11 EDT 2011

At Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:05:58 -0600, Jon Rafkind wrote:
> For Honu I set up the `current-read-interaction' procedure to read a string of 
> characters ended by a newline and to parse that with `honu-read-syntax'. [...]
> 
> 2. I wanted to make ctrl-d quit the repl immediately so I look for an 
> eof-object in the stream and if found I try to return #'(exit). The Honu 
> parser gets
> involved at that point so it doesn't quite work, but anyway is that the right 
> strategy?

I think the reader should return `eof', because `read-eval-print-loop'
stops when it sees an end-of-file.



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