3.4 Debugging

Gauche doesn't have much support for debugging yet. The idea of good debugging interfaces are welcome.

For now, the author uses the classic 'debug print stub' technique when necessary. A special reader syntax #?=expr is defined, which is read as (debug-print expr). The macro debug-print evaluates and returns the result(s), printing messages before and after evaluation of expr.

gosh> #?=(+ 2 3)
#?="(stdin)":1:(+ 2 3)
#?-    5
5
gosh> #?=(begin (print "foo") (values 'a 'b 'c))
#?="(stdin)":2:(begin (print "foo") (values 'a 'b 'c))
foo
#?-    a
#?+    b
#?+    c
a
b
c
gosh> (define (fact n)
        (if (zero? n)
            1
            (* n #?=(fact (- n 1)))))
fact
gosh> (fact 5)
#?="(stdin)":6:(fact (- n 1))
#?="(stdin)":6:(fact (- n 1))
#?="(stdin)":6:(fact (- n 1))
#?="(stdin)":6:(fact (- n 1))
#?="(stdin)":6:(fact (- n 1))
#?-    1
#?-    1
#?-    2
#?-    6
#?-    24
120

You can also use trace/untrace macros in Gauche, written by Shigenobu Kimura: http://homepage.mac.com/skimu/ggc/.

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