Re: [Chicken-users] an ode to Spiffy

[Michele Simionato]

> (You meant, "to discourage users *by* making things harder than needed", 
> right?)

Yep, the "by" slipped off!

> As you suggested earlier, Michele, it would be great to have better
> error reports (and decent tracebacks, please!). I'd also love a
> remote-REPL facility, to connect to a running spiffy server... A few
> tools like this, and spiffy/Chicken could easily become my framework
> of choice for Web app prototyping.

I think to get a remote REPL is not difficult, but I have serious doubts
about getting better tracebacks, since I have never seen a Scheme
implementation with good error reporting :-(

Guido van Rossum says that he will never make Python tail recursive 
since it does not want to lose nice tracebacks. I don't know if it is
technically
possible to get both tail recursion and nice tracebacks, and how difficult
it is.
 
> Heck -- if we can throw in a consistent DB API, a MySQL egg, a few
> handy webapp framework components, and a good tutorial, then you've
> got a serious contender in the silent masses' quest for the ideal LAMP
> (LAMS?) framework. (Well, maybe, if the silent masses can learn to
> digest parentheses.)
> 

Well, this is called being optimistic! ;-)