Found some of those, incorrectly dangling 'if's as well when I first ported to racket/base, but I can tell you the bigger surprise was what I found when I ported from racket/base to typed/racket/base.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Neil Van Dyke <[email protected]> wrote: > Anecdote of "if" mandatory else clause being a win... > > Porting some "#lang mzscheme" app code to "#lang racket/base", one of the > tedious tasks is fixing all the "if" syntax that doesn't have an else > clause. I decided to fix the "if" forms manually, rather than with Emacs > macrology, just in case there was anything I didn't just want to make an > "and". Doing it manually turned out to be fortunate, since Racket has > already found *five* independent (i.e., not copy&pasted) locations where the > programmers clearly intended to do "(if B E1 E2)", but instead did something > else, usually "(if B E1) E2". I won't be surprised if I find a few more by > the time all the code compiles. > > Also, I doubt the programmers would have made these oopses, had they been > using recent DrRacket, which does paren-matching that's hard to ignore. I'm > probably going to make Quack force more prominent paren-matching than Emacs > does by default. I'll also probably add my M-arrow sexp movement key > bindings to Quack, to encourage sexp-based movement. > > -- > http://www.neilvandyke.org/ > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius
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