From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc1.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: trace-all References: <2hbshcidbn.fsf@dslab7.cs.uit.no> Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3216666946227155@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 22:35:47 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@KPNQwest.no X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1007678147 193.71.66.49 (Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:35:47 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 23:35:47 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:22045 * "Coby Beck" | 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. /// -- The past is not more important than the future, despite what your culture has taught you. Your future observations, conclusions, and beliefs are more important to you than those in your past ever will be. The world is changing so fast the balance between the past and the future has shifted.