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- From: matt@volga.Berkeley.EDU (Matt Wright)
- Subject: Re: wots going on here!?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.004706.22131@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:47:06 GMT
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- In article <17o70sINNi2e@agate.berkeley.edu> bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey) writes:
- >You know, I have to agree with the original poster that this is not the
- >sort of thing one would wish to present to a beginner. Remember, you're
- >on page 184 before you learn what an "environment" is. Meanwhile all
- >that argle-bargle is pretty intimidating.
-
- I agree that getting thrown into the debugger on errors is much more of a
- nuisance than a help for a beginner. (Actually, for people like me who
- generate lots of errors anyway with typos, brainos, etc., I still don't want
- to get thrown into the debugger unless I ask for it.)
-
- One system I've used that I like a lot is the one in Kyoto Common
- Lisp---there's some global variable that says whether you want to be put
- into the debugger; if it's false than a (possibly partial) stack trace is
- printed on any error and you get a top-level REP loop.
-
- -Matt
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