[racket] racket/place seems to be incompatible with DrRacket

I tried saving the module and putting a require in the DrRacket window, and that works correctly. I think this will be an acceptable workaround for the time being, but I'd really like to know more about what's going on.

-- Dave (on the iPhone)

On Aug 30, 2011, at 4:44 AM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:

> I'm sorry; I was wrong.
> 
> I don't see the behavior you're seeing, tho. If I add parens around
> 'all-defined-out', and save the file in tmp.rkt, then this is the
> behavior I see at the command-line racket:
> 
> Welcome to Racket v5.1.3.6.
>> (require "tmp.rkt")
>> (super-simple)
> 5
> 
> and I see similar behavior in DrRacket:
> 
> Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.1.3.6--2011-08-25(7bb8c6c4/d) [3m].
> Language: racket; memory limit: 128 MB.
>> (super-simple)
> 5
>> 
> 
> FWIW, in 5.1.3, I get an error that's surprising to me, as I don't see
> how the sandbox gets involved in this program, but here it is:
> 
> car: expects argument of type <pair>; given '#((module program racket/base))
> 
> === context ===
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/racket/sandbox.rkt:572:17: ns
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/racket/sandbox.rkt:584:20
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/racket/sandbox.rkt:334:0: call-with-limits
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/racket/sandbox.rkt:564:0: evaluate-program
> /Applications/Racket
> v5.1.3/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:151:2:
> call-with-break-parameterization
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/racket/sandbox.rkt:704:2: user-process
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:430:6
> /Applications/Racket v5.1.3/collects/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:470:32
> 
> Robby
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:55 PM, David Mitchell
> <dave at fallingcanbedeadly.com> wrote:
>> You might have to unpack that a little bit more for me, as I don't see how that's the case. Additionally, why would it work from Terminal and not DrRacket?
>> 
>> -- Dave (on the iPhone)
>> 
>> On Aug 29, 2011, at 6:32 PM, Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think what's happening is that you're creating a place whose first
>>> action is to create that same place again (over and over).
>>> 
>>> Robby
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:17 PM, David Mitchell
>>> <dave at fallingcanbedeadly.com> wrote:
>>>> I've been trying to experiment with racket/place, but it seems to have
>>>> significant incompatibilities with DrRacket. I've defined a module based on
>>>> a code snippet in http://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/publications/dls11-tsffd.pdf
>>>> that looks like this:
>>>> 
>>>> #lang racket
>>>> (provide all-defined-out)
>>>> (define (fib n)
>>>>   (define (fib-inner n-remaining i i+1)
>>>>     (if (= n-remaining 1)
>>>>         i+1
>>>>         (fib-inner (- n-remaining 1) i+1 (+ i i+1))))
>>>>   (if (<= n 0)
>>>>       0
>>>>       (fib-inner n 0 1)))
>>>> (define (start-fib n)
>>>>   (define p
>>>>     (place ch
>>>>            (define n (place-channel-get ch))
>>>>            (place-channel-put ch (fib n))))
>>>>   (place-channel-put p n)
>>>>   p)
>>>> (define (super-simple)
>>>>   (define p
>>>>     (place ch
>>>>            (place-channel-put ch 5)))
>>>>   (place-channel-get p))
>>>> 
>>>> If I run racket in my Terminal and load this module, I'm able to use
>>>> start-fib and super-simple as expected. However, if I define this module in
>>>> the DrRacket editor and access the functions through the repl, attempts to
>>>> receive data from either place appear to hang. I'm running OS X Lion, and
>>>> I've tried both the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of 5.1.3, as well as the
>>>> 64-bit version of the latest nightly build (5.1.3.6--2011-08-28(46a0fe9/a)).
>>>> I posted a question about this to the IRC channel last night, and one other
>>>> user (jonrafkind) indicated that that the issue could be reproduced on
>>>> 32-bit Linux, so it seems unlikely to be a platform issue. This user also
>>>> indicated, "it seems places keeps reloading the current module."
>>>> (Unfortunately, I am quite new to racket, so I have only a vague idea what
>>>> this means, and no idea at all as to how one would go about discovering such
>>>> a thing)
>>>> Does anyone have any insight as to why this might be failing and/or how I
>>>> might work around it (without abandoning the GUI)?
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