[racket-dev] Two suggestions for scribble rendering of errors

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 7 16:42:03 EST 2012

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> The two bugs that I've just filed makes me think that there are two
> things that should be done:
>
> 1. In rendering of errors, find strings that look like paths to the
>   racket installation, and replace them with "<racket>".  This would
>   resolve another hard-wired path that you can see in
>
>     http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/rackunit/api.html
>
>   I don't see any other way to make that page sensible besides
>   hacking code in those docs -- but that's probably useful in other
>   cases too.
>
> 2. Maybe add a flag to forms that render evaluations to declare that
>   you're expecting the rendering to have errors?  Otherwise it's easy
>   to miss errors that don't happen on your own build.

This would be great, IMO.

Robby


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