[gambit-list] A simple blackhole test

Mikael mikael.rcv at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 09:33:32 EDT 2011


2011/6/8 Mikael <mikael.rcv at gmail.com>

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>
> 2011/6/8 Per Eckerdal
> ..
>
> Hehe.. The stuff you have been experiencing is a large reason to why I have
>> pretty much given up working on Black Hole, it is so hard to integrate it
>> into Gambit in a reasonable way.
>>
>> It kindof works for me personally, for instance because I know that the
>> warning messages you see are from Gambit and not BH, but there are so many
>> small things that don't make sense unless you know the inner workings of BH
>> (debugging from the REPL and attempting to access the hygienically renamed
>> variables is a mess), and I haven't been able to get around it.
>>
>
> While indeed Black Hole doesn't 'swallow' Gambit and abstract it away
> completely, it is a good module system that delivers for practical use.
>
>

> Re REPL debugging, the only limit I see is that the granularity of the code
> row&column numbering is decreased to the level of individual top-level
> procedure only.
>

^ Aha this one is fixed in the syntactictower branch.


>  Accessing the variables in their renamed form is fine also, as you have
> the names of all local variables from ,be all the time.
>
> Brgds
>
>
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