If I fire up gsi, I can do:

(+ 1 (+ 2 'a))

*** ERROR IN (console)@3.6 -- (Argument 2) NUMBER expected (+ 2 'a) 1> ,(c 3) 4

$ cat test.scm: (eval '(+ 1 (+ 2 'a)))

$ gsi test.scm *** ERROR -- (Argument 2) NUMBER expected (+ 2 'a) $

okay ... so gsi dies on me, I look into main.scm (in the gambit source, this repl-debug function looks like what I wnat)

$ cat test2.scm cat test2.scm (define (my-eval x) (with-exception-catcher ##repl-debug (lambda () (pp x) (eval x))))

(pp (my-eval '(+ 1 (+ 2 'a))))

$ gsi test2.scm (+ 1 (+ 2 'a))

,(c 3)

3 $

I dislike this for two reasons. 1) I miss the error statement of: *** ERROR -- (Argument 2) NUMBER expected and 2) I get 3 instead of 4.

How can i correct these two? I suspect this is likely a 2 line fix since the functionality already exists.

thanks!