[plt-scheme] MrEd - Read Only Editor?

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Robby Findler <robby at cs.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Ben Simon <benjisimon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Ryan Culpepper <ryanc at ccs.neu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ben Simon wrote:
> > > > Hey All,
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions how I can create a read only editor? That is, an
> editor
> > that
> > > > my code can append/insert into, but that users can't?
> > > >
> > >
> > > > Thoughts?  Or do I need to be creating a big 'ol multi line
> message%?
> > >
> > > When the editor is locked (see the 'lock' method), all modifications
> > > silently fail. So users can type in the editor and nothing happens.
> >
> >
> > Interesting. Is it considered acceptable style leverage this fact and
> write
> > code that depends on this?
>
> Yes. Why wouldn't it be?
>


When I heard "silently fail" I wasn't sure if that would always be the
case.  What if the next version of the code base decides that it shouldn't
silently fail.  The *silently fail* part seemed like it could
be anun-expected feature.

Though, I was probably reading too much into this.

-Ben


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