[racket] syntax coloring issue?

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 3 18:15:51 EDT 2011

Thanks for the test case. I've pushed a fix for this to the git version.

Robby

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Adam Shaw <adamshaw at cs.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Greetings --
> My students have alerted me to an apparent syntax-coloring problem in
> DrRacket.
> Try typing this file -- you have to type *the second line first*, then go up
> to a prior line and type *any three Greek letters* (not necessarily
> distinct) --
> ;; ααα
> ;; something is funny with this line
> (Those are Greek alphas, in case they're not showing up in anyone's mail
> reader.)
> This seems to break syntax coloring.
> The student who alerted me to this is using DrRacket 5.1.3 on Windows Vista.
> I have also run it on my machine -- DrRacket 5.1.3 + Mac OS 10.6 -- and
> found some odd behavior (although apparently different odd behavior).
> Regards,
>
> Adam
>
>
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