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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: catch, throw, prompt, control, fluids, garbage collection
Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:15:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34ofy5s8m.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4tx80qv.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:16:24 +0000")

Hi,

A late reply :)

On Sun 28 Feb 2010 23:16, Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:

> it was recently suggested to me that when a Guile program is running
> under a debugger, and hits some kind of error, the debugger could
> offer a menu of places in the program to jump back to.  I think that
> would align exactly with the set of prompt tags.

Yeah! We need a fluid to hold the restarts, and some sort of restart
data type that includes a prompt tag and a description of the
restart. Something like that. We should look to see what other schemes
do, and what other lisps do.

Fortunately this can be implemented entirely in Scheme :) Someone
interested in making a prototype?

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



      reply	other threads:[~2010-07-17 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-14 12:33 catch, throw, prompt, control, fluids, garbage collection Andy Wingo
2010-02-14 14:32 ` Fluids Ludovic Courtès
2010-02-14 15:50   ` Fluids Andy Wingo
2010-02-14 19:09     ` Fluids Ken Raeburn
2010-03-02 23:52   ` Fluids Ludovic Courtès
2010-03-03 12:29     ` Fluids Andy Wingo
2010-03-03 13:09       ` Fluids Ludovic Courtès
2010-03-05 17:24       ` Fluids Ludovic Courtès
2010-02-14 14:45 ` Plan for the next release Ludovic Courtès
2010-02-14 15:54   ` Andy Wingo
2010-02-15 22:07 ` catch, throw, prompt, control, fluids, garbage collection Andy Wingo
2010-02-18 22:35   ` Andy Wingo
2010-02-25  0:00     ` Andy Wingo
2010-02-26 12:27       ` Andy Wingo
2010-02-28 22:16         ` Neil Jerram
2010-07-17 10:15           ` Andy Wingo [this message]

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