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Re: Broken Backtraces, and Part of a Solution


From: Noah Lavine
Subject: Re: Broken Backtraces, and Part of a Solution
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:13:31 -0400

Here's a patch that fixes the bug for me. I'd also like to add a test
suite for the stack functions, to make sure this doesn't happen again,
but I'll look at that later.

Noah

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:36 PM, Andy Wingo <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed 18 Apr 2012 18:08, Noah Lavine <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> We need to change to default to consider generic objects as
>>> eq?-compared prompt tags.
>>
>> I agree, but you still couldn't use procedures or integers as prompt
>> tags if you wanted make-stack to work, because those are special
>> cases.
>
> Yeah, but the whole point of prompt tags is that you can make a new one
> and know that it is eq?-unique, which is not the case for integers.  So
> integers are not in the general case.  It seems useful to add procedures
> as a special case too, no?
>
>> That's why I thought of just changing the interface to make-stack to
>> specify what you want - it's such a weird restriction that someone
>> could be bitten by it and have a lot of trouble tracking it down. And
>> because an argument can mean three different things, code that uses
>> make-stack is hard to understand (or at least it was for me).
>
> It's something of a nasty interface, I agree.  But it's been around for
> a long time; if we can make a minimal change, we should, it seems to me.
>
> Want to make a patch?
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy
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