[plt-scheme] Using 'lang' with relative paths in mzscheme 3.99?

From: Robby Findler (robby at cs.uchicago.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 1 17:58:33 EST 2008

Why do you want quotemarks instead of just

  #lang mylanguage

?

On Feb 1, 2008 4:48 PM, Danny Yoo <dyoo at cs.wpi.edu> wrote:
> I'm doing a project where I'm defining my own module language, and would
> like to be able to say something like:
>
>
> ######################
> #lang "mylanguage.ss"
> ######################
>
> but mzscheme 3.99 currently errors out with:
>
> #######################################################################
> read: expected only alphanumberic, `-', `+', `_', or `/' characters for
> `#lang', found "
> #######################################################################
>
> I can get around this by using the longhand "(module ...)" form or by
> writing my own #reader, but this is slightly awkward.  Is there a plan to
> remove the syntactic restriction on what comes after #lang?  Thanks!
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