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

A namespace is a mapping from top-level identifiers to whatever they are,
as well as a separate mapping from module names to modules (roughly). What
you care about here is the second mapping, but you're checking the first
with the patch.

Robby


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Stephen Chang <stchang at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> > 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
> >
> _________________________
>   Racket Developers list:
>   http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev/archive/attachments/20131002/50c85a96/attachment.html>