Re: Backtraces in Guile 2.0

[Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>]

> From:Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
> > Thus, if I understand correctly, the closest I can get to getting source
> > info for this trivial case would be to change the script to
> >
> >   (symbol->string "HELLO")
> >   #t
> 
> Yep.
> 
> > Adding a #t so it can't be tail-called.  Then I get
> >
> > In unknown file:
> >    ?: 2 [load-compiled/vm 
> "/home/Mike/.cache/guile/ccache/2.0-LE-4-2.0/home/Mike/tmp.scm.go"]
> > In /home/Mike/tmp.scm:
> >    1: 1 [#<procedure 13fa550 ()>]
> > In unknown file:
> >    ?: 0 [symbol->string "STRING"]
> > ERROR: In procedure symbol->string:
> 
> Is this what you want?  It seems right to me...

My expectation of debuggers has been formed by my experience with
GDB and MSVC, so I'm still trying to work out for myself where I
think Guile's debugging could use improving and where the analogy
to GDB is faulty.

To say something completely incoherent, I feel like the 
debugger isn't giving me enough information to solve my problems:
I feel like it should be easier to know where I am in the source
and where I am in the stack. But to improve on the above incoherent
statement, I first need to understand what the expected behavior
actually is and how to best take advantage of the functionality
that exists.

Thanks,

-Mike