[slime-devel] swank:frame-locals

[Marco Baringer]

i would like to make a change to slime which isn't directly related to 
slime as an emacs lisp IDE but related to slime's (unexpected) use as a 
generic debugger interface.

The function frame-locals currently returns the name and the value of a 
frame-local as strings, while this is great for emacs it makes it 
impossible for me[1] to usefully inspect those values in my debugging 
interface (built on slime but doesn't use emacs). The change i would 
like to propose is the make swank:frame-locals return, along with 
:value-string and :name, a :value and :name-value property.

is this ok or is it important that slime remain concentrated on being 
an emacs interface and not a general common lisp implementation 
abstraction layer? This particular change would be rather trivial but I 
can see this being the start of a road slime may not want to take.

[1] - i'm pretty sure i'm not the only person using slime without 
emacs, but i can't remeber who it was who said they were also doing 
this.

--
Marco
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