On Jul 21, Ryan Culpepper wrote: > You need to escape the backslash in your string: > > (directory-exists? "C:\\iconsource") > > DrRacket colors the bad string red to indicate that there's a > problem with it. If you insert the extra backslash, it turns green. > > Wouldn't it be nice for DrRacket to signal an error when you hit > enter instead? Yes, but it strikes me as a subtle problem. (We do, > after all, want to permit multi-line repl entries.) I'll let someone > who's thought about it more address that part.
(Funny coincidence: it's been doing what it does now for a while, and recently I suggested changing things so the read error will be reported instead of waiting for you to fix it.) -- ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x))) Eli Barzilay: http://barzilay.org/ Maze is Life! _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users