[racket-dev] patch for make-base-eval

> Whether that identifier exists in the namespace has nothing to do with
> whether racket/pretty can be attached.

Can you explain this a little more because it's a little unintuitive to me?


>
> One option would be for install-pretty-printer! to just catch and discard
> the error. Evaluators for some languages would mysteriously not have
> pretty-printing turned on by default.
>
> Another option would be to attach racket/pretty before requiring the initial
> language for the namespace.
>
> Another option is use #:pretty-print? #f when attaching racket/pretty would
> fail.
>
> Ryan
>