DrRacket EOPL Scheme output

Question

I am working through the EOPL Scheme exercises using DrRacket in Windows 7. When I switch from #lang racket to #lang eopl, the output from the definitions pane no longer shows up in the interaction pane. To be clear, as trivial example, running

    #lang racket
    4

produces

    4
    >  

as you would expect. But running

    #lang eopl
    4

produces only

    > 

Is there anything I can do to change this behavior or is there another pane I should be looking at for output? I can, of course, evaluate expressions in the interaction pane and see the output, but this is tedious when I have multiple expressions I want to evaluate multiple times.

Answer 1

Looks like #lang eopl uses #%plain-module-begin, which does not print results, instead of #%module-begin, which does print results.

For a quick way to switch, create the following file with the following contents:

eopl-printing.rkt:

#lang racket
(require (except-in eopl #%module-begin))
(provide (all-from-out eopl))
(provide #%module-begin)

Then use this as the language in another file:

#lang s-exp "eopl-printing.rkt"
1
2
3

produces in my DrRacket:

Welcome to DrRacket, version 5.3.4.6 [3m].
Language: s-exp "eopl-printing.rkt" [custom].
1
2
3
> 

CAVEAT: If eopl was hiding the results for a reason, then you may get some spurious output, but I don't know for sure.

Answer 2

A possible workaround: print the value in the definitions pane, so it'll show up in the interactions pane. And use newline to separate lines:

(write 4)
(newline)
(write 2)

> 4
> 2

Of course, it'll be tedious if you want to display many values, but it's an improvement.