[plt-scheme] Servlet2 and standalone.ss

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 13 15:20:39 EDT 2005

On Oct 13, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:

>>> Maybe DrScheme can return in addition to an error
>>> message when a program fails, a list of what its other
>>> languages thought of the input program.
>>
>> That's unfortunately superfluous for most uses and users.
>
> Not if the program actually works at some other level.  That
> might suggest the user has the wrong language level.  There
> is one particularly useful case of this: the very first program
> evaluated after installing DrScheme.  It would avoid the usual
> "But why doesn't internal define work?" question.  After that
> first evaluation the feature should be turned off.

Agreed. But that is also the only use I could have thought off.



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