Re: underscores in debug output?

[Christopher Howard]

Ok, okay. Is there some way to affect that? Perhaps I have to use some
debug printing or stop points to see those values?

On Wed, 2017-08-30 at 22:46 +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Christopher Howard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi, what does the underscore character mean in this debug output?
> > 
> >    159:37  5 (delete ((3 . "c") (((2 . "b") (()) 1) (5 . "e") (())
> > 1)
> > 2) 2)
> >    163:49  4 (delete ((2 . "b") (()) 1) _)
> >     152:9  3 (delete _ _)
> >     86:11  2 (skew _)
> >      64:6  1 (horizontal-left-link? _)
> >     46:11  0 (left-tree _)
> > 
> > Knowing the value of those parameters would be super helpful here,
> > but
> > for some reason they have been replaced by underscores.
> 
> My guess would be that those values are being garbage-collected.
> Since _
> is the pattern for matching an arbitary value, it is used to denote a
> garbage-collected value.
-- 
https://qlfiles.net
https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/

signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part