[plt-scheme] 369.6

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 22 16:41:41 EST 2007

At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:05:59 -0600, "Robby Findler" wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Dave Herman <dherman at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > > BEWARE: Files saved with this version of DrScheme cannot be read in
> > > previous versions of DrScheme --- unless you manually remove the
> > > `#reader("read.ss""wxme")' prefix in the file.
> >
> > Is this true for all files, or only files that have had (at least at
> > some point) graphical elements within them? In other words, if I create
> > a pure-text file with DrScheme will it remain a text file?
> 
> At the point at which you save the file, drscheme checks for non-text
> elements. If there are none, it is saved as regular old text. (utf-8
> encodable things, like the lambda, count as text.)

That is, I should have written "BEWARE: Graphical-format files saved
with this version of DrScheme...".

Matthew




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