> > "Ho Ho!" thought I. "Beginner Student Racket will give a much better error > message." Actually, though, the error message was much worse: it highlighted > the id "list-sum-odd" in what should have been the 'else' case, and wrote: > > "list-sum-odd: expected a function call, but there is no open parenthesis > before this function" > > ... which is really terrible, because there *IS* a parenthesis right before > the function name.
This is a variation of one of the cases described in Guillaume's paper on error messages. Figure 4 of http://gmarceau.qc.ca/papers/Marceau-2010-Measuring-Effectiveness.pdf _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
