Re: despair, debugging, and the repl

[Neil Jerram]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> So, to that end, then, here's a preliminary plan of action:
>
>   * Deprecate all of the old repl code, keeping compatibility shims for
>     the useful interfaces perhaps, but trying to move the REPL
>     implementation entirely out to modules.
>
>   * Remove all of the old debugger code. This pains me somewhat, but we
>     have to move forward here.
>
>   * Deprecate the-last-stack fluid -- besides being hard to reason
>     about, it doesn't even work all that well.
>
>   * Document the new REPL.
>
> I hope to finish this work within a week or so. Comments welcome!

FWIW, this makes sense to me.