racket / racket/drracket

phase X (X > 0) is executed more than once

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Description

(Copied from https://github.com/greghendershott/racket-mode/issues/379)

#lang racket

(begin-for-syntax
  (println 1))

results in

1
1
1

in DrRacket. However, if we run this in racket, only one 1 appears.

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Research direction

Reproduce the begin-for-syntax example in DrRacket and compare its output with running the same code in racket. Trace how DrRacket executes the phase-X expression; done means the example prints one 1, matching racket.

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