On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 2:59 PM Jonathan Simpson <jjsim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the difference between this code, which reads and returns "#lang" > from the file: > (define in-file (open-input-file "adventure.rkt")) > (parameterize ([current-input-port in-file]) (read-string 5)) > > and this code which appears to still read from stdin: > > (with-input-from-file "adventure.rkt" (read-string 5)) > > I thought with-input-from-file would set the current-input-port to the > file in basically the same way as the first code segment. > > I see this behavior from both DrRacket and Emacs racket-mode. > > `with-input-from-file` takes a thunk (that is, a procedure of 0 parameters) as its second argument, so your code should be: (with-input-from-file "adventure.rkt" (λ () (read-string 5))) I'd expect your code to read from stdin but then raise a contract error when checking the arguments to `with-input-from-file`. - Jon > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
