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From: wware@world.std.com (Will Ware)
Subject: Re: Scheme at a turning point
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 21:36:44 GMT
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: * Good developing/debugging environment.
: No Scheme system I've used comes close to the ease of debugging I can
: get with gdb and emacs for C (I haven't played with PSD yet, is it
: useful?). Only MIT Scheme and Scheme48 have builtin debuggers that I
: know of.

There is a great feature in STk, where when you hit a bug at run-time, it
pops up a window with a stack of environments, shown as expressions (for
nested calls). Click on any of the environments and you can then type
expressions which get evaluated in that environment.
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