At Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:25:37 -0400, Danny Yoo wrote: > I've traced the source of this "begin" down to the do-plain-eval > function in scribble/eval.rkt. > > ;; within do-plain-eval: > (cond [(syntax? s) > (syntax-case s (module) > [(module . _rest) (syntax->datum s)] > [_else s])] > [(bytes? s) `(begin ,s)] > [(string? s) `(begin ,s)] > [else s])))) > > I assume it's trying to make sure than an evaluator defined by > racket/sandbox doesn't treat it as program source rather than as data, > since the sandbox treats strings and bytes in a special way. > > Would it be equivalent behavior to turn the datum into a syntax object > instead? That is: > > ;; within do-plain-eval: > (cond [(syntax? s) > (syntax-case s (module) > [(module . _rest) (syntax->datum s)] > [_else s])] > [(bytes? s) (datum->syntax #f s)] > [(string? s) (datum->syntax #f s)] > [else s])))) > > If this looks right, I can send as a patch.
I'm not completely certain, but that looks ok to me. _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
