[racket-dev] [plt] Push #27090: master branch updated

About a month ago, Matthias Felleisen wrote:
> 
> On Jul 7, 2013, at 12:08 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice to have some way of doing it with contracts, but
> > that's obviously impractical -- so I think that a good way to
> > solve it and other such problems is to add a parameter for the
> > name used in read errors, and making `raise-read-error' behave in
> > a similar way to `raise-syntax-error' with the parameter used as
> > the `foo:' part of the error message.
> 
> Boy I like this. I can't remember how often I have code up something
> like '#:function' and thought this is a general problem worthy of a
> solution.

My point was that this is a problem with readers -- where you often
wrap some reading function (that can fail) by your own reader
function, and any reading problems should therefore be attributed to
your reader.  That's why I think that a parameter would be a nice way
to address this.

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