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From: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: despair, debugging, and the repl
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:13:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sk4rt9ja.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zkz3nr11.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:03:22 +0200")

Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:

> So, to that end, then, here's a preliminary plan of action:
>
>   * Deprecate all of the old repl code, keeping compatibility shims for
>     the useful interfaces perhaps, but trying to move the REPL
>     implementation entirely out to modules.
>
>   * Remove all of the old debugger code. This pains me somewhat, but we
>     have to move forward here.
>
>   * Deprecate the-last-stack fluid -- besides being hard to reason
>     about, it doesn't even work all that well.
>
>   * Document the new REPL.
>
> I hope to finish this work within a week or so. Comments welcome!

FWIW, this makes sense to me.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-13 12:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-10 10:03 despair, debugging, and the repl Andy Wingo
2010-06-10 12:45 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-06-10 14:36   ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-10 20:32     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-06-13 12:13 ` Neil Jerram [this message]
2010-06-14 16:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2010-06-14 21:38   ` Andy Wingo

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