[plt-scheme] [OT] grateful for PLT Check Syntax

From: Shriram Krishnamurthi (sk at cs.brown.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 9 16:23:16 EDT 2009

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Geoffrey S. Knauth <geoff at knauth.org> wrote:
> A colleague running experiments in Mathematica recently found that some of
> his extraordinarily good results were due to a misspelled variable.
>
> datalengh = Length[data];
>
> Later in the code, datalength was not misspelled, but it had no value.  The
> program was happy when it should not have been, and it produced happy pill
> results.  I listened to the story and thought, "This could not have happened
> with DrScheme."

Nor could symbolic integration.

Shriram


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