[racket] Getting test-engine to work with #lang racket

On Sep 18, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Luke Vilnis wrote:

> Thanks guys, that works! Still, it's pretty confusing that running  
> (test) from the repl does not work, only inserting it at the end of  
> the file. It would be nice to mention that in the docs, something  
> like:
>
> "Note that the check forms only register checks to be performed.  
> The checks are actually run by the test function."
>
> =>
>
> "Note that the check forms only register checks to be performed.  
> The checks are actually run by the test function, which should be  
> called at the end of the file. Using test in the REPL will not run  
> check forms declared in the definitions."

An even better answer would be for "test" to WORK in the REPL.  I  
hadn't noticed that it doesn't (although I haven't used test-engine/ 
racket-tests very much).  Can somebody who knows explain in small  
words why it doesn't?



Stephen Bloch
sbloch at adelphi.edu
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