Subject: Re: trace-all
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:35:47 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3216666946227155@naggum.net>

* "Coby Beck" <cbeck@mercury.bc.ca>
| I think I once did a (trace unread-char) without thinking and...well it
| was a problem...

  It would have been so much nicer if the Common Lisp system had not kept
  tracing functions called by the top-level loop itself, but had confined
  its tracing to the functions called by direct user request.  The user is
  unlikely to want to debug the top-level loop, anyway.

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