On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Robby Findler <[email protected] > wrote:
> I see that the teaching language error messages now have things like > this in them (where the . is an image literal): > > Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.1.2.3--2011-07-19(4b77a0fc/d) [3m]. > Language: Beginning Student; memory limit: 128 MB. > > (+ 1 (list .)) > +: expects a number as 2nd argument, given (cons an image empty) > I see that this is being done via regexps on the error message > strings. This seems bad. > > Can we at least get some delimiters on there so it doesn't look like a > malformed use of 'cons'? My goal is to have the actual image displayed there instead. "an image" was just a quick replacement for #(struct:object:cache-image-snip% ...), which is incomprehensible to students, and intimidating. I've push a fix that makes it read (cons (image) empty) instead. That should hold us up until we get a proper image there.
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