Re: Bug #1 - (debug-disable 'debug) has no effect ...

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

    Marius> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
    >> >>>>> "Marius" == Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:
    >> 
    Marius> Neil Jerram <address@hidden> writes:
    >> >> 
    >> >> I'm not convinced.  How can people be expecting debugging to be turned
    >> >> on after having explicitly said `(debug-disable 'debug)' in their
    >> >> .guile file?
    >> 
    Marius> Because Guile behaved like that for quite a while.
    >> 
    >> But it's a bug!

    Marius> Yes, and it is fixed in the non-stable branch.  It's too late to fix
    Marius> it in the stable branch.  

    Marius> It is too late because I have decided so.  I know that this might 
not
    Marius> be popular, and it comes somewhat as a surprise.  I don't do this
    Marius> because I like to be despotic, but because I think it is 
constructive.
    Marius> 1.6 has been too long in the making.  Of course, there is a huge
    Marius> amount of improvements to be made in Guile, but that's why we have 
the
    Marius> unstable HEAD branch.

OK, fair enough.  Sorry for going on about this for so long.

    >> Do we say that we don't want to fix `(array? car) => #t)' now because
    >> Guile has behaved this way for a while?

    Marius> Yes, exactly.  It wont be fixed in the stable branch.

Sorry again; I didn't realize that we weren't planning to fix this in
the stable branch.  Understanding this makes the overall picture
much clearer. 

        Neil