Thanks Jay. I've removed the use of the argument and verified that the
handin-server still seems to work. I'll push the change when I get to
school.

Robby

On Monday, January 3, 2011, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote:
> The option was removed because it didn't do anything.
>
> #:namespace in other places in the Web Server is used to allow
> dynamically loaded code to share module instantiations with the Web
> Server (and therefore with each other.)
>
> dispatch/servlet does not dynamic load any code. It runs a servlet
> that is passed as a closure argument. That closure has whatever
> namespace the author of the servlet wants it to and it would be
> misleading to have this argument that really only effects dynamic
> loading of code within the servlet itself.
>
> The handin server should just work if you delete the argument, because
> as I said, it isn't doing anything.
>
> Jay
>
> 2011/1/2 John Clements <[email protected]>:
>> I'm trying to use the 'handin-server' code, which depends on a now-defunct 
>> #:namespace argument to dispatch/servlet. Your change eliminating this 
>> argument  (commit c7995e247e8300) was in response to Shriram's PR about port 
>> number assignments, but that doesn't help me to figure out why that argument 
>> would have disappeared.  I'm guessing that it's going to be something simple 
>> like using parameterize on current-namespace instead of specifying it as an 
>> optional argument, but since the handin server code isn't mine, I wouldn't 
>> be confident that my change was a sane one.
>>
>> So: is there a simple mechanism that replaces this optional argument?
>>
>> John Clements
>>
>>
>
>
>
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