[racket-dev] Stumped!

From: Pierpaolo Bernardi (olopierpa at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 16:59:02 EST 2013

So, it has always behaved like this?  I'm really surprised that I have
never been bitten by this before.  8^)


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> I think that the lack of information about tail calls can be particularly
> pernicious in the presence of multiple value errors. It would be good to do
> better, but I'm not sure how. The errortrace library contains what we
> currently do so you'd want to experiment there if you have an idea.
>
> Robby
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi <olopierpa at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>> > The line
>> >
>> >   (date-day quando)99
>> >
>> > looks pretty suspicious; with the 99 there, the first branch of the
>> > enclosing 'if' expression returns 8 values but the second branch returns
>> > 7
>> > values.
>>
>> Yes, that was the source of the error (a mistake due to me pressing
>> the Num Lock key inadvertently).
>>
>> What had me stumped is that DrRacket gives no hint about the location
>> of the error.  Not even the right file!
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