It sounds like one could work around this by taking whatever was passed to #:namespace and making the servlets move over to that namespace, at least.
Robby On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccar...@gmail.com> wrote: > I didn't realize the handin server used it when I removed it. > > It definitely doesn't need it. > > The #:namespace argument made it so the closure given as the request > handler was called in a different namespace than it was evaluated in, > causing a reinstantiation of the module and other weirdness. For > example, > > #lang web-server/insta > (require (only-in "some-stateful-module.rkt" set-a! unbox-a)) > ; where a defaults to "Hello World" > (set-a! "Hello World, not") > (define (start req) > (unbox-a)) > > would evaluate to "Hello World" instead of "Hello World, not", because > some-stateful-module was not shared with the new namespace. This seems > incredibly wrong, so I removed the namespace argument and the request > handler closure is simply evaluated in the namespace it came from. > > The #:namespace argument is still useful for other servlets that come > from serve/servlet, because they are loaded from disk and may need to > share some modules with the main one, but should otherwise be > isolated. > > Jay > > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >> Probably there was some mail on this topic, but... >> >> Why did `dispatch/servlet' lose its `#:namespace' argument? >> >> The handin server was using that argument, so it no longer runs. >> >> > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> > Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University > http://teammccarthy.org/jay > > "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
