[plt-scheme] How to replace a Unicode string in the definitions with the result of evaluating it?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 25 12:50:42 EST 2009

The two notations for the strings produce identical strings (just ones
that are written differently), so you don't need to evaluate anything,
just use read & write (or if you don't want the quotes, read and
display).

Robby

2009/1/25 Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org>:
> Hi folks,
>
> In DrScheme I would to be able to type:
>
> "\u266C"
>
> in the definitions window, and with the cursor here:
>
> "\u266C"|
>
> execute some code that would replace the entire string with the result
> of evaluating it in the repl (but without the double quotes):
>
>>
> I am not sure of the best way to go about evaluating the string. I am
> going to start by investigating namespaces. What is the best way to do
> this?
>
> I figured that I can find the editor manipulation in the DrScheme
> source to do the replacement itself.
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