Re: Racket REPL not working

[Felix Lechner]

Hi Zelphir,

On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 2:57 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl
<zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> I updated guix today using `guix pull && guix package -u`, but even before 
> that,
> I had an issue starting a Racket REPL simply entering `racket`:

Following your lead, I just updated Racket to the latest version (via
Guix Home). It works fine locally.

  > racket --version
  Welcome to Racket v8.8 [cs].

At the bottom you can see what I saw when I did not realize that I was
in the Racket REPL. My Emacs Eshell uses the same prompt symbol.

I use Guix as the base system. Are you using the Guix package manager
while you are in another Linux distribution?

Kind regards,
Felix

* * *

> racket
Welcome to Racket v8.8 [cs].
> help
Sending to web browser...
  file: 
/gnu/store/svrzd7cvjlcanwa46msdvdh1l28m6x5m-racket-8.8/share/doc/racket/index.html
> racket --version
racket: undefined;
 cannot reference an identifier before its definition
  in module: top-level
 [,bt for context]
--version: undefined;
 cannot reference an identifier before its definition
  in module: top-level
 [,bt for context]
> racket
racket: undefined;
 cannot reference an identifier before its definition
  in module: top-level
 [,bt for context]