[racket] DrRacket and The Little Schemer?

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Mon May 21 09:39:50 EDT 2012

Olwe, this is the correct thing to do. 

I do have a 70% implementation of a TLS language somewhere, I am just too conservative to plug these things into the code base and let bug reports drive me. I guess I should dig it out one day. 

-- Matthias





On May 21, 2012, at 12:29 AM, Erik Silkensen wrote:

> Try just the Racket language by putting "#lang racket" at the top of your file.
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> On May 20, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
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>> I've been working through The Little Schemer using Petite Chez Scheme and Emacs, but now I'd like to try DrRacket. I have a large file where I've been putting all the function defines from the book. Occasionally, I use my own function names, but mostly I stick with the book's names. My problem is that when I click Run, errors appear:
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>> add1: this name was defined previously and cannot be re-defined
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>> This happens with all the HTDP language choices. With the Legacy languages I get:
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>> define-values: cannot change constant variable: equal?
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>> Of course commenting out seems to get me farther, but I'm commenting so many out! I'd simply like to try DrRacket with TLS and be able to debug and step through my code. For example, I'd like to find a way to trace through each step of evens-only*&co
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