[racket-dev] Abort behavior different in DrRacket & Racket

I've pushed a fix for this. Thanks for pointing it out.

Robby

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Asumu Takikawa <asumu at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In the Guide entry on control[1], there's a section detailing prompts
> and abort. Here's an example from that section:
>
>> (define (escape v)
>    (abort-current-continuation
>     (default-continuation-prompt-tag)
>     (lambda () v)))
>> (+ 1 (+ 1 (+ 1 (+ 1 (+ 1 (+ 1 (escape 0)))))))
>
> If you run this in the command-line REPL, it'll produce 0 as the Guide
> claims.  However, if you run it in DrRacket, it will not return.
>
> It turns out that the abort handler for DrRacket is just:
>  (lambda args (void))
>
> while the abort handler for Racket is this:
>  (lambda results (for-each (current-print) results))
>
> Was this intentional or should both REPLs behave the same way for
> aborts?
>
> [1]: http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/guide/prompt.html
>
> Cheers,
> Asumu
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