From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Bug #1 - (debug-disable 'debug) has no effect ... Date: 15 Mar 2002 23:53:18 +0000 Sender: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87eliuzx1o.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87zo1awxqa.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <877kodoa9g.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1016236672 454 127.0.0.1 (15 Mar 2002 23:57:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Bugs Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16m1a3-00007E-00 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:57:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16m1ZJ-0003Bx-00; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.21] helo=s1.uklinux.net) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16m1Yn-00038K-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (IDENT:root@ppp-3b-89.3com.telinco.net [212.159.133.89]) by s1.uklinux.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2FNuSb24945; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:56:28 GMT Original-Received: from laruns.ossau.uklinux.net.ossau.uklinux.net (neil@laruns.ossau.uklinux.net [192.168.1.3]) by portalet.ossau.uklinux.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20022; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 23:56:29 GMT Original-To: Marius Vollmer In-Reply-To: <877kodoa9g.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Errors-To: bug-guile-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:20 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:20 >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: Marius> Neil Jerram writes: >> >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer writes: >> Marius> Neil Jerram writes: >> >> >> >> I'm not convinced. How can people be expecting debugging to be turned >> >> on after having explicitly said `(debug-disable 'debug)' in their >> >> .guile file? >> Marius> Because Guile behaved like that for quite a while. >> >> But it's a bug! Marius> Yes, and it is fixed in the non-stable branch. It's too late to fix Marius> it in the stable branch. Marius> It is too late because I have decided so. I know that this might not Marius> be popular, and it comes somewhat as a surprise. I don't do this Marius> because I like to be despotic, but because I think it is constructive. Marius> 1.6 has been too long in the making. Of course, there is a huge Marius> amount of improvements to be made in Guile, but that's why we have the Marius> unstable HEAD branch. OK, fair enough. Sorry for going on about this for so long. >> Do we say that we don't want to fix `(array? car) => #t)' now because >> Guile has behaved this way for a while? Marius> Yes, exactly. It wont be fixed in the stable branch. Sorry again; I didn't realize that we weren't planning to fix this in the stable branch. Understanding this makes the overall picture much clearer. Neil _______________________________________________ Bug-guile mailing list Bug-guile@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-guile