From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Vollmer Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel,gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Ditching (debug-enable 'backwards) ? Date: 03 Nov 2002 18:41:02 +0100 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765veblg1.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036346398 22575 80.91.224.249 (3 Nov 2002 17:59:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:59:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Development , Guile Users Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 188P2T-0005ry-00 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:59:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188OyE-00028g-00; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188Ok7-0007eA-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 188Ok4-0007do-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:40:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.dokom.net ([195.253.8.218]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 188Ok3-0007dU-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 12:40:55 -0500 Original-Received: from dialin.speedway42.dip72.dokom.de ([195.138.42.72] helo=zagadka.ping.de ident=qmailr) by mail.dokom.net with smtp (Exim 3.32 #2) id 188Oko-0005th-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:41:42 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 16663 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Nov 2002 17:41:02 -0000 Original-To: Neil Jerram In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1634 gmane.lisp.guile.user:1318 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1634 Neil Jerram writes: > Does anyone use (debug-enable 'backwards) and have a good reason for > keeping it? Hmm. I'd say we should only remove it when there is significant cost associated with it. Since we already have it, we might as well keep it. Maybe it will make someone happy. :-) > In my view, it makes documenting the debugger harder, It would good enough to just document the default case and only mention somewhere that the backtrace can also be displayed backwards but that the documentation assumes that it is not being done. > is likely to introduce bugs in the debugger code (if there aren't > any there already), Is that so? The 'backwards' option should only matter during display and we already have that code, right? On the other hand, if you need to write new display code for the debugger and the backwards option makes that significantly harder, I'd say it is OK to remove it. -- GPG: D5D4E405 - 2F9B BCCC 8527 692A 04E3 331E FAF8 226A D5D4 E405 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel