debugging Lisp
Sep. 17th, 2005 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslI really really need some better debugging tools for Lisp/Slime.
Instead of having to back up working code all the time, I should be able to change one or two things, and align the two run-time call-trees to see what's different.
I am often asking "What part of my code will react negatively to this change?", and tracing this through testing is very time-consuming.
I'd also like a stepper with variable watch. Right now, I'm doing prints, that get commented in and out.
Also, my code needs to be better designed. Implementing what should be a trivial change is proving to be a lot of work. Much of this is legacy code from the 2-month-old Lisper... I was so stupid back then... I feel much more confident as an 8-month old Lisper. Although the design also needed more thought, period... much of the code was evolved "genetically", where my tests were playing the role of natural selection.
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Also, I'd like to publicly bitch about emacs not letting me paste text from other windows (even if they're emacs windows).
Instead of having to back up working code all the time, I should be able to change one or two things, and align the two run-time call-trees to see what's different.
I am often asking "What part of my code will react negatively to this change?", and tracing this through testing is very time-consuming.
trace gives me way too much to look at. I wonder if diff'ing the two traces would help.I'd also like a stepper with variable watch. Right now, I'm doing prints, that get commented in and out.
Also, my code needs to be better designed. Implementing what should be a trivial change is proving to be a lot of work. Much of this is legacy code from the 2-month-old Lisper... I was so stupid back then... I feel much more confident as an 8-month old Lisper. Although the design also needed more thought, period... much of the code was evolved "genetically", where my tests were playing the role of natural selection.
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Also, I'd like to publicly bitch about emacs not letting me paste text from other windows (even if they're emacs windows).
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Date: 2005-09-18 05:53 pm (UTC)as far as emacs goes, i find -nw (text-mode only) makes my life much easier. letting the xterm handle cutting and pasting also means it goes to where my text cursor is rather than wherever the fuck my mouse cursor ends up when i click it.
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Date: 2005-09-18 06:01 pm (UTC)Coming to think of it, this shouldn't be very hard for me to implement... if only I figure out how to make Lisp handle errors.