Re: How to debug indentation

["N. Raghavendra" <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>]

At 2018-05-26T03:41:03+02:00, Michael Heerdegen wrote:

> AFAICT you just place into in the code, reevaluate, and it will print
> values into the trace buffer.  E.g.
>
> (defun fac (x)
>   (trace-values (cons 'x x))
>   (if (< x 2) 1 (* x (fac (1- x)))))
>
> Tracing `fac' and evaluating (fac 3) gives you a trace buffer like
>
> 1 -> (fac 3)
> 1 -> (trace-values (x . 3))
>   2 -> (fac 2)
>   2 -> (trace-values (x . 2))
>     3 -> (fac 1)
>     3 -> (trace-values (x . 1))
>     3 <- fac: 1
>   2 <- fac: 2
> 1 <- fac: 6
>
> Nothing more.

That's helpful.  I'll try that.

Thanks,
Raghu.

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