[plt-scheme] Resetting the mzscheme environment

The tools are all there in the mzscheme/mred manuals. You need to
create a new custodian, namespace, thread, etc. There is nothing
baked-in to drscheme. You might try reading this paper:

  http://www.ccs.neu.edu/scheme/pubs/#icfp99-ffkf

Robby

On 10/23/07, Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I have been saving questions up as I explore (as if for the first
> time) the plt environment.
>
> Things I have been stumbling on and loving:
>
> * (p)regexp intergration
> * expressiveness of the module system (I thought python had this
>   bagged, but apparently not as fully as it could be).
> * reworked function parameter handling system.  Really nice, not as
>   intuitive as python, but as flexible and more expressive, and the
>   addition of keyword arguments was very needed (imho), although
>   swindle supplied it before.
> And there is more to discover.
>
> The current question:
>
> If I using mzscheme as a prompt how can I read in a module again?  If
> I try it, it does not work.  Resetting the mzscheme environment is
> perfectly fine, but I cannot figure out how to do this.
>
> In the plt guide I ran into this (yes I am using the svn version):
>
>    With mzscheme, you'd save the above text in a file using your
>    favorite editor. If you save it as "piece.ss", then after starting
>    mzscheme in the same directory, you'd evaluate the following
>    sequence:
>
>      > (enter! "piece.ss")
>
> But I get an undefined symbol error if I try and use it.  I have big
> loaded in my mzschemerc which solved most language problems while
> trying out the examples in the guide, but not this one.
>
> At the moment I have to restart the interpreter, which is not all that
> handy.  I could probably hack something up to automate the process
> if needed but would prefer to find something that could handle this
> within the system.  I know that Dr.Scheme resets the environment
> before executing code, but maybe this is a Dr. Scheme specific thing.
> If the mechanism is in mred, I am happy to use that as my interpreter.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Rohan
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