Re: [racket-dev] Error messages need some imrovement

2015-11-12 Thread Thomas Lynch
It is not the very nature of errors that we do not expect them, and do not predict them with specificity, so it is incumbant upon racket to give location infomration with errors, rather than for the programmer to do so? Or am I missing something here? Here is another example: §lambda1:/home/de

Re: [racket-dev] Error messages need some imrovement

2015-11-12 Thread Robby Findler
The .zo files are generally located in the compiled/ subdirectory next to the file you are running. You would get them if you run "raco make mc-lambda.rkt", for example. And that was my guess with the previous error, not the current one. With this error, it looks like a macro is expanding into a f