From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: despair, debugging, and the repl Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:13:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87sk4rt9ja.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1276431239 11674 80.91.229.12 (13 Jun 2010 12:13:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:13:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 13 14:13:57 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONm4a-0006sw-Lm for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:13:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONm4a-00017U-1h for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51153 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ONm4S-00017P-4S for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONm4Q-0002iG-N6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:13:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:48381) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ONm4Q-0002iA-Hm for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 08:13:46 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-162-176-49.range86-162.btcentralplus.com [86.162.176.49]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7CD1F6AB7; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:13:46 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy (unknown [192.168.11.8]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id B448638026; Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:13:45 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: (Andy Wingo's message of "Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:03:22 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:10467 Archived-At: Andy Wingo 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.