Re: Broken Backtraces, and Part of a Solution

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

On Wed 18 Apr 2012 18:08, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:

>> We need to change to default to consider generic objects as
>> eq?-compared prompt tags.
>
> I agree, but you still couldn't use procedures or integers as prompt
> tags if you wanted make-stack to work, because those are special
> cases.

Yeah, but the whole point of prompt tags is that you can make a new one
and know that it is eq?-unique, which is not the case for integers.  So
integers are not in the general case.  It seems useful to add procedures
as a special case too, no?

> That's why I thought of just changing the interface to make-stack to
> specify what you want - it's such a weird restriction that someone
> could be bitten by it and have a lot of trouble tracking it down. And
> because an argument can mean three different things, code that uses
> make-stack is hard to understand (or at least it was for me).

It's something of a nasty interface, I agree.  But it's been around for
a long time; if we can make a minimal change, we should, it seems to me.

Want to make a patch?

Regards,

Andy
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