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3 points by GenArx 2947 days ago | link | parent

[issue] "I've reformatted my Windows and tried your installations instructions above. When I first followed this instructions it worked out just fin [maybe because of the prior mzscheme installations I've made my own]. This time around I'm following your instructions without first installing my first instruction method, and here's the error:

  tl: undefined;
    cannot reference undefined identifier
      context...:
        C:\Program Files\Racket\collects\racket\private\misc.rkt:87:7
    tl: undefien
NOTES:

> I've installed racket-6.4-i386-win32 and Git-2.7.4-32-bit

> Running Windows 7 EE 32bit



2 points by rocketnia 2947 days ago | link

Oops, sorry, this is due to the change I made to boot.scm recently: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=19478

In the case of these instructions, lnstead of (load "boot.scm"), please use (require "boot.scm") now.

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1 point by akkartik 2947 days ago | link

Hmm, not sure what's going on. Is the word 'undefien' in your comment exactly as it appears on the error message?

I assume this happens when you type in the third command (tl)?

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2 points by GenArx 2946 days ago | link

Welcome to Racket v6.4.

> (current-directory (find-system-path 'home-dir))

> (current-directory "anarki")

> (require "boot.scm")

> (tl)

Rtl: undefined; cannot reference undefined identifier context...: C:\Program Files\Racket\collects\racket\private\misc.rkt:87:7

> stdin::107: read: unexpected `)'

  context...:

   C:\Program Files\Racket\collects\racket\private\misc.rkt:87:7
>

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2 points by rocketnia 2946 days ago | link

The error has to do with looking up the variable "Rtl". The "R" probably comes from a bug in Racket's reader where certain things pasted into a Windows terminal window are parsed incorrectly. Where you typed "(tl)", somehow it saw "Rtl)".

In my experience, the bug doesn't occur as long as the text I'm pasting has a newline at the end. Maybe you could try that. That is, instead of just selecting the text you want to copy, select a blank line after it too.

Alternatively, you could type everything by hand instead of pasting... but that sounds pretty painful. Hopefully you don't have to resort to that.

EDIT: I tried to reproduce that pasting issue with Racket 6.4 on Windows 10, and I don't get it anymore. You're using Racket 6.4 too, so are you using a particular version of Windows?

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2 points by GenArx 2946 days ago | link

I would want to follow my mzscheme instructions to install arc, but I'll let it pass for now because i want us to solved this Issue.. If I do that your instructions might work but not knowing what's exactly going on without mzscheme, (i think so) :)

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