(Perhaps this suggests a problem with making a macro depend on the shape of parens around a sub-expression.)
On Nov 18, 2012, at 10:01 PM, Neil Toronto wrote: > I'm writing the documentation for math/array, and the examples all fail. > Here's a simple one: > > @examples[#:eval untyped-eval > (array [0 1 2 3])] > > The evaluator raises this error: > > application: not a procedure; > expected a procedure that can be applied to arguments > given: 0 > arguments...: > 1 > 2 > 3 > > The problem here is that the `array' macro is sensitive to square brackets, > but Scribble doesn't preserve the 'paren-shape syntax property. (Either that, > or `examples' only sends lists to the evaluator, not syntax.) So (array [0 1 > 2 3]) gets evaluated as (array (0 1 2 3)), which looks like a > zero-dimensional array containing (0 1 2 3), which is an application of the > value `0'. Bad. > > I know this can work just fine; for example, this does the expected thing in > the REPL: > > > (eval #'(require math)) > > (eval #'(array [0 1 2 3])) > (array [0 1 2 3]) > > Is there a way to get Scribble to behave like I expect? > > Neil ⊥ > _________________________ > Racket Developers list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
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