On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote: > > On Sep 10, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Matthew Flatt wrote: > >> At Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:21:28 -0700, John Clements wrote: >>> I've spent long enough with the docs on this not to feel too embarrassed >>> about >>> this question: what kind of value is produced by >>> >>> '#(struct:foo 3 4) >>> >>> (N.B. the leading quote) >> >> Are you by chance using the PLAI language that is distributed with 5.0.1? >> >> I ask because this looks like something that would be produced by the >> broken printer in that version. > > No: > > #lang racket > > (define-struct foo (a b) #:transparent) > > (define o (open-output-string)) > (write (make-foo 3 4) o) > (read (open-input-string (get-output-string o))) > > => > > Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.0.1.5--2010-09-08(93ee20e/g) [3m]. > Language: racket; memory limit: 256 MB. > (foo 3 4) > '#(struct:foo 3 4) >> > > > And to everyone else: D'oh! Okay, I do feel embarrassed. >
I've been confused by this too. For some reason, '#(struct:foo 3 4) just looks like it MUST be special. _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users
