+1 Robby
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Matthias Felleisen <matth...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > > > Yes, and it was submitted in some form as a bug before. Why don't you modify > teach.rkt and see whether you like the result better. Then submit. > > > > > On Feb 10, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > >>> >>> "Ho Ho!" thought I. "Beginner Student Racket will give a much better error >>> message." Actually, though, the error message was much worse: it >>> highlighted the id "list-sum-odd" in what should have been the 'else' case, >>> and wrote: >>> >>> "list-sum-odd: expected a function call, but there is no open parenthesis >>> before this function" >>> >>> ... which is really terrible, because there *IS* a parenthesis right before >>> the function name. >> >> >> This is a variation of one of the cases described in Guillaume's paper >> on error messages. Figure 4 of >> http://gmarceau.qc.ca/papers/Marceau-2010-Measuring-Effectiveness.pdf >> _________________________ >> Racket Developers list: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev > > > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
