Re: [Chicken-users] an ode to Spiffy

[Michele Simionato]

On 5/25/05, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 5/25/05, Michele Simionato <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I feared that might be the case. Still, any tool that could instrument
> my code to provide some kind of "this source-snippet is probably the
> problem" report would be beneficial. Maybe I need to do some reading
> on Scheme debuggers...

You may start from

# chicken-setup debug

and see how far you can go.

               Michele Simionato