[racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
This one got me stumped for a while. I don't remember a case like this ever occurring in the past, so I'm thinking that maybe this is a regression? In DrRacket, with debugging and stacktrace enabled in all the buffers involved, when I run the file strano.rkt, I get this error: Welcome to DrRacke

Re: [racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Ryan Culpepper
The line (date-day quando)99 looks pretty suspicious; with the 99 there, the first branch of the enclosing 'if' expression returns 8 values but the second branch returns 7 values. Ryan On 02/22/2013 09:48 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: This one got me stumped for a while. I don't rememb

Re: [racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > The line > > (date-day quando)99 > > looks pretty suspicious; with the 99 there, the first branch of the > enclosing 'if' expression returns 8 values but the second branch returns 7 > values. Yes, that was the source of the error (a mista

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #26344: master branch updated

2013-02-22 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:40 PM, wrote: > > + The list of colors is obtained by drawing the image on a white > + background and then reading off the colors of the pixels that were drawn. Is there a particular reason to choose white, as opposed to clear, for the background in this test? Does d

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #26344: master branch updated

2013-02-22 Thread Robby Findler
No, I don't think it does. The drawing operation is called "over" and it takes two colors (rgb, say), and an alpha and produces a color (rgb). So you always start with some solid color in the background and draw the shape on top of it, resulting in another color that some other shape can be drawn o

Re: [racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Robby Findler
I think that the lack of information about tail calls can be particularly pernicious in the presence of multiple value errors. It would be good to do better, but I'm not sure how. The errortrace library contains what we currently do so you'd want to experiment there if you have an idea. Robby On

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #26344: master branch updated

2013-02-22 Thread Sam Tobin-Hochstadt
Ok, that makes sense. I think you should maybe add the word "floor" in the nitty-gritty documentation. You might also link from that discussion in the docs to the Cairo docs here: http://cairographics.org/operators/ . However, I can't find anything where they say they round down rather than to ne

Re: [racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Pierpaolo Bernardi
So, it has always behaved like this? I'm really surprised that I have never been bitten by this before. 8^) On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > I think that the lack of information about tail calls can be particularly > pernicious in the presence of multiple value errors.

Re: [racket-dev] [plt] Push #26344: master branch updated

2013-02-22 Thread Robby Findler
Well, I didn't try to explain _that_ part of the issue here (what I called "b" in my message on the audit trail). It is much more complex and based more on conjecture, so I'm hesitant to even try especially when the existing discussion covers a more general, related problem that is likely to satisf

Re: [racket-dev] Stumped!

2013-02-22 Thread Robby Findler
I didn't investigate your program to be sure it isn't some other bug, but the potential for this kind of bad behavior has always been with us, yes. Robby On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote: > So, it has always behaved like this? I'm really surprised that I have > never b

[racket-dev] Pull request for make-base-eval

2013-02-22 Thread David Van Horn
This is a pull request to make racket/scribble make-base-eval more like racket/sandbox make-evaluator, which was useful to me, but I wasn't sure if the current design avoided this for some reason. This should be a backwards compatible change, but I have not tested it. https://github.com/plt

Re: [racket-dev] Pull request for make-base-eval

2013-02-22 Thread David Van Horn
On 2/22/13 7:05 PM, David Van Horn wrote: This is a pull request to make racket/scribble make-base-eval more like racket/sandbox make-evaluator, which was useful to me, but I wasn't sure if the current design avoided this for some reason. This should be a backwards compatible change, but I have

Re: [racket-dev] Expression comments

2013-02-22 Thread Eli Barzilay
On Wednesday, Harry Spier wrote: > Dear list members, > I've just received an email that the bug report >http://bugs.racket-lang.org/query/?cmd=view&pr=12375 > I initially submitted about this has been closed. But I'm not clear > from the e-mail whether it is now intended to leave the commente