On Oct 6, 2011, at 4:35 PM, "John Clements" <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> If there's any disagreement, it's about what should happen when an existing > file--specifically, one that doesn't begin with #lang--is opened. Unless I'm > missing something, this means that the only time students will have to > "re-select" the language level is when they download a file that's intended > to be evaluated in a student language, but that doesn't have a #lang line in > it. Right? > > In my particular case, I had a program for students that reads in a rhythm > from a text file. The problem was that when students opened this text file > in a drracket editor and changed it a bit and saved it, all of a sudden their > rhythms came out as incredibly bizarre, because of the hidden first lines of > the text file. How about this: when you open an existing file that has no prologue or #lang, it opens in "text mode": the Check Syntax and Run buttons are both disabled. Stephen Bloch sbl...@adelphi.edu > _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
