David,
You quoted me out of context, because I included another common definition of completeness of a language implementation, even if it is not the one used in the Scheme community:
"I think that a language implementation is not complete without a good out-of-the-box development environment, which includes a good debugger."
I *am* trying to get stuff done using Scheme. That's why I'm annoyed that I have to spend time working on this debugger. But tools are not free, and so I'm contributing time in order to try to make things better for myself, and others.
-William
David Rush wrote:
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:46 PM, William Cook wcook@cs.utexas.edu wrote:
I stand by my assertion that there are no complete implementations of Scheme.
Smile when you say that. Them's fighting words :)
'Complete' generally means RnRS-conformant for whatever values of N you happen to like.
And this is very unfortunate. I also admit being annoyed by this situation, but I'm not just complaining; I am trying to do something about it.
And most everybody else is trying to get stuff done using Scheme. But I'm definitely *not* installing eclipse for debugging support when I've already got Emacs. OTOH, I'd love to see even a good command line debugger in a Scheme system and none of them are very good.
david