[Openmcl-devel] How to debug?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

On 2012/11/23, at 13:18 , Ralph Möritz wrote:

>> CL:STEP is not obsolete, it's just implemented in a way that's not
>> useful in the current versions of ccl. =
> 
> Ah, thanks for the correction.
> 
>> For this reason, I've developed a stepper in conforming Common Lisp,
>> that you can use in ccl (or in any other CL implementation, if you
>> prefer it over the native stepper).
> 
>> See:
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.lisp/nj3jFxcJYM0/QbzGkAbyAtMJ
> 
>> https://gitorious.org/com-informatimago/com-informatimago/trees/master/comm=
>> on-lisp/lisp
> 
> I just tried out your stepper (which I'll refer to as `cl-stepper')
> and it provides exactly the sort of experience I was hoping for. More
> people need to try it - IMHO cl-stepper provides a *much better*
> debugging experience than what you get out-the-box, even with SLIME
> goodies like stack inspection etc. Being able to step through my code
> probably just saved me *hours* of pain. Thank You M. Bourguignon! 		 	   	  


You're welcome.  It saved me hours too :-)

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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