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