On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Stephen Bloch <bl...@adelphi.edu> wrote: > > > On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:35 PM, "John Clements" <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > >> If there's any disagreement, it's about what should happen when an existing >> file--specifically, one that doesn't begin with #lang--is opened. Unless I'm >> missing something, this means that the only time students will have to >> "re-select" the language level is when they download a file that's intended >> to be evaluated in a student language, but that doesn't have a #lang line in >> it. Right? >> >> In my particular case, I had a program for students that reads in a rhythm >> from a text file. The problem was that when students opened this text file >> in a drracket editor and changed it a bit and saved it, all of a sudden >> their rhythms came out as incredibly bizarre, because of the hidden first >> lines of the text file. > > How about this: when you open an existing file that has no prologue or #lang, > it opens in "text mode": the Check Syntax and Run buttons are both disabled.
Another possibility: it could open in the 'not a language' language that you get if this is the first time you've started drracket (if it has been a while since you've seen this mode, you can move your preferences out of the way and restart drracket to see it again). Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
