Re: A Guile debugger workgroup?

[Janneke Nieuwenhuizen]

Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide writes:

Hi Arne,

> Jannneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org> writes:
>> In 2014, I wrote patches for Guile to use a debug prompt that GUD can
>> work with.  The Guile debug patches didn't make it into Guile, but the
>> Emacs GUD integration is part of Emacs.
>>
>>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2014-08/msg00004.html
>
> What were the reasons these didn’t make it?

No idea, there was no comment or interest in the patch.  I believe the
consensus was (is?) to use pk for debugging.  FWIW, I'm using my own
"pke", because many of my programs are (pseudo-)filters, writing their
output to stdout, which makes "pk" not so handy.  See attached.
> I now have push-access, so if these get acked by someone who knows that
> part well enough, I can take up the integration.

That's nice, but it probably needs to be updated and it certainly needs
some discussion.

Greetings,
Janneke

>From 98264afe030eef3b5bbabc03b76808253ce10d14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen" <janneke@gnu.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 11:26:34 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add peek-error, pke.

Debuging using `pk' is popular in Guile, but not really usable if your
program is as (pseudo-)filter, i.e., writing its output to stdout.

* module/ice-9/boot-9.scm (peek-error, pke): New procedures.
---
 module/ice-9/boot-9.scm | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/module/ice-9/boot-9.scm b/module/ice-9/boot-9.scm
index dc3537063..639aaaa79 100644
--- a/module/ice-9/boot-9.scm
+++ b/module/ice-9/boot-9.scm
@@ -183,6 +183,16 @@ This is handy for tracing function calls, e.g.:
 
 (define pk peek)
 
+(define (peek-error . stuff)
+  "Like peek (peok), writing to (CURRENT-ERROR-PORT)."
+  (newline (current-error-port))
+  (display ";;; " (current-error-port))
+  (write stuff (current-error-port))
+  (newline (current-error-port))
+  (car (last-pair stuff)))
+
+(define pke peek-error)
+
 (define (warn . stuff)
   (newline (current-warning-port))
   (display ";;; WARNING " (current-warning-port))
-- 
2.39.1

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