[racket] Creating a #lang language, and modifying contract system

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Ismael Figueroa Palet
<ifigueroap at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/8/4 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>
>>
>> The blame assignment stuff is wired pretty deep into the contract
>> system. There isn't currently any way to change that aspect of the
>> system without doing what you've done below.
>>
>> If you can say more about how/why you want to change it, tho, there
>> maybe some extension to the current API that would work for you and
>> that we'd be willing to maintain going forward.
>
> I defined a new-exn struct to represent exceptions and defined a raise macro
> that wraps Racket's raise to throw a new-exn value. Also, I need to raise
> the exception thrown by raise-blame-error inside a parameterize expression.
> I want to access and modify a parameter that will be used to construct the
> new-exn value.

It sounds like you're maybe adding a field to the exn record? Can you
say more about what that field is and how you compute its value? (Or
if I'm just wrong about that?)

Thanks,
Robby