[slime-devel] SLIME48: a Swank back end in Scheme48

Helmut Eller heller at common-lisp.net
Tue Aug 23 21:09:27 UTC 2005


* Taylor Campbell [2005-08-23 20:47+0200] writes:

> About a month ago, as I was thinking about building a comprehensive
> development environment for Scheme (& Scheme48 in particular), akin to
> SLIME, the notion occurred to me that Scheme48 might actually provide
> the necessary facilities for a realistic Swank back end (as compared to
> the mostly toy back end Helmut Eller sent here a while ago).  So I
> started working on it a bit in small increments, and pretty soon Emacs
> was successfully talking to it over TCP to evaluate simple REPL
> expressions.  Last week I implemented SLDB support, after rewriting it
> from scratch once my initial prototype worked; I spent the whole
> weekend fixing a really obscure bug involving threads, continuations, &
> DYNAMIC-WIND; and just today I've gotten it into an almost usable state
> for REPL work (though not file & module loading & such yet).

Would you mind to post the code for the "realistic" backend?  With
what version of scheme48 does it work?



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