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Re: Guile 1.5.4 beta ready for testing.


From: David Pirotte
Subject: Re: Guile 1.5.4 beta ready for testing.
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 11:18:44 +0100

Marius Vollmer wrote:
> 
> Keith Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> > > From: Marius Vollmer <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > Keith Wright <address@hidden> writes:
> > >
> > > >   Bug: A bad .guile file kills the whole interpreter with
> > > >     a message that does not mention .guile.
> > >
> > > Running guile with the --debug option gives you a backtrace for errors
> > > in ~/.guile.  Is that OK?
> >
> > It's OK.  I wish I had known to do that when I had the problem.
> > What about making that the default and let people who know
> > every option and never make mistakes set --no-debug?
> > ...or turn it off in their .guile file!
> 
> Hmm, well.  I'm tempted to say, yes, why not.  It will make Guile
> slower by default (about twice as slow), but I find that I turn the
> debugger on in my programs anyway, and then just leave it on.  The
> slowness hasn't hurt me yet.

I totally desagree, debug should be activated strictly on request, not being the
default

david



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