BSL decimal number values paste as non-textual
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Description
When BSL is set to display rational numbers as decimal, evaluating them produces a non-textual value that is easily mistaken for being textual. Then if a student copies and pastes such a value into their racket file, the value pastes as non-textual and the file becomes non-textual. This breaks course infrastructure that depends on receiving textual files, and is quite difficult for course staff, let alone students, to understand, and they are far more difficult to find than images or comment boxes since they look exactly like text.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with BSL's decimal-number display setting, then inspect how the evaluated value is represented when copied and pasted into a Racket file. Done means the pasted decimal value remains textual and course infrastructure can continue receiving textual files.
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Assessment
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- compilers
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100