[racket] doc problem

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 29 10:34:26 EST 2011

This call 

  (tcp-listen PORT 4 #true "127.0.0.1")

works for me wrt to port reuse. See docs for #true. -- Matthias



On Jan 28, 2011, at 8:49 PM, Hugh Myers wrote:

> In the document page entitled "More: Systems Programming with Racket"
> in section 5 it says:
> 
> Unfortunately, we cannot now re-start the server with the same port number:
> 
>> (serve 8080)
> 
>  tcp-listen: listen on 8080 failed (address already in use)
> 
> The problem is that the listener that we created with serve is still
> listening on the original port number.
> 
> Problem is that on my machine I get no such error message. I'm running
> the latest racket on a box under Vista Premium Home. I can think of no
> reason for this difference other than the usual case of document
> drift--- that is where the difference between what is documented and
> what is, increases over time. Might this be the case?
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