[plt-scheme] language levels in drscheme

On Jan 17, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Corey Sweeney wrote:

> Hey danny.  That must not have come across right.  I'll try a  
> differnt way.

Your initial e-mail suggested having language levels associated with  
files.  I believe that the principal difficulty in implementing this  
is the fact that there's not an obvious cross-platform file metadata  
format.  Also, some users might be surprised when they open a new  
file and it behaves in a "weird" way. Finally, I think it's not an  
incredibly high-priority item; I just counted, and I count six  
keystrokes in going from (module...) to pretty big, and four  
keystrokes to go back again. Of course, this doesn't include the  
irritation of forgetting to switch, and running the program only to  
be told that you have more than one expression (or worse, simply  
evaluating the module without opening it).

This is probably more of an issue for you than for most, because most  
of your code is in the "pretty big" language; I suspect that for many  
PLT users, nearly all of their code is in modules.

I think that Danny was suggesting that you throw _all_ of your code  
in modules, wrapping the "pretty big" ones with (module <module-name>  
(lib "pretty-big.ss" "lang") ...) (that's from memory, apologies for  
any errors there).  Of course, there may be some reason why this  
isn't possible for you.

Hope this helps ... to clarify the problem, at least.

Corrections Cheerfully Accepted (CCA),

John Clements


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