[racket-dev] variable wrong procedure or structure-type shape error?

From: Kevin Forchione (lysseus at gmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 19:22:10 EDT 2014

On Aug 29, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> 
> You need to clean out the cached compiled code and remake those collections. Remove the compiled directories, and run raco make again. -- Matthias
> 
> 
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> On Aug 29, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Kevin Forchione <lysseus at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmmm…. something changed between Racket 6.1 and the latest release that is producing this mysterious (to me at least!) error in a project of mine that compiles fine with 6.1, but not with the latest version, producing: 
>> 
>> Welcome to DrRacket, version 6.1.0.5--2014-08-28(a1f5340/a) [3m].
>> Language: racket [custom]; memory limit: 512 MB.
>> link: bad variable linkage;
>> reference to a variable that has the wrong procedure or structure-type shape
>> reference phase level: 0
>> variable module: "/Users/lysseus/Racket/games/lib/matrix.rkt"
>> variable phase: 0
>> reference in module: "/Users/lysseus/Racket/games/2048/2048-obj.rkt" in: matrix-row
>> 
>> Any idea wheat this error means and why 6.1.0.5 is getting the error? It appears to have been introduced sometime after version 6.1.0.5--2014-08-25(32ae3f8/a) [3m]., which compiled fine.

That sorted it. And that’s got me on to learning more about race. :)

-Kevin

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