[plt-scheme] PLT Scheme 4.0 and GNU Emacs 22.2.1 on Windows woes

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 1 14:22:49 EDT 2008

I think this is fixed for the next release and in the nightly builds
(as of July 6 or so, which would be version 4.0.2.<something>).

Matthew

At Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:17:07 -0400, "Jeff Dik" wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use PLT Scheme 4.0 in GNU Emacs 22.2.1 on Windows with
> the excellent Quack mode.  The inferior scheme mode is not showing any
> errors until the mzscheme proces is closed.  Here's a short example:
> 
>     Welcome to MzScheme v4.0.2 [3m], Copyright (c) 2004-2008 PLT Scheme Inc.
>     > (+ 1 "3")
>     > (foo bar baz)
>     > (exit)
>     +: expects type <number> as 2nd argument, given: "3"; other
> arguments were: 1
> 
>      === context ===
>     d:\sw\PLT\collects\scheme\private\misc.ss:68:7
> 
>     reference to undefined identifier: foo
> 
>      === context ===
>     d:\sw\PLT\collects\scheme\private\misc.ss:68:7
> 
> 
>     Process scheme finished
> 
> The errors do not appear until I run "(exit)".  This problem also
> appears if I run mzscheme in the eshell.
> 
> Emacs does not have this problem with PLT Scheme v371.  The problem
> appears with PLT Scheme 3.99.0.25, 4.0, and 4.0.2 (these are the
> versions I tested).
> 
> Any suggestions on how to correct the problem would be greatly appreciated :-)
> 
> Thanks to all the PLT people for this wonderful Scheme implementation.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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