[racket] Feature request: requires make it into Interactions even if Definitions have an error

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 14 15:30:53 EST 2011

Why don't you evaluate the require in the REPL directly? 
(The error could be in a require line, so there is no way 
of saying 'load this even if hell breaks loose'). 


On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> One thing that annoys me about DrRacket is that, if you have an error
> in the Definitions pane, none of your required modules are loaded, so
> if you try to fiddle in the Interactions window, you get "undefined"
> errors. It may be that (require ...) can appear pretty much anywhere,
> so I don't know if it's reasonable to try to read in the require specs
> from the top of the Definitions file, but some way to say, "Here are
> the things I need in the Interactions, even if my Definitions fail"
> would be nice.
> 
> Todd
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