Re: Stack traces

[Matt Wette]

> On Feb 15, 2017, at 7:36 AM, Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> One thing that we see requested a lot is how to do the equivalent of:
> 
>  import pdb
>  pdb.set_trace()
> 
> in python, just dumping something to "trigger" the debugger somewhere.
> I seem to remember getting some arcane code to do something similar, but
> maybe we can just have a simple invocation that people could put
> anywhere.  (Amirouche has been raising this one also I think.)
> 

^^^This is exactly what I yearn for.  I asked about this before and got the 
following hint, but could not get anything to work.



(use-modules (system repl repl))
(Use-modules (system repl debug))
...
(start-repl #:debug (make-debug (stack->vector (make-stack #t)) 0 "trap!" #t))