[slime-devel] Debugging without stepping

[Jonathon McKitrick]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:18:37PM +0100, Paolo Amoroso wrote:
: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm at FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:
: 
: > I'm new to SLIME, and trying to figure out some practical debugging strategies
: > since I'm so used to single-stepping and breakpoints, and we don't have those
: > facilities (IIRC) under Lisp/SLIME.
: 
: My own debugging approach is heavily based on SLIME's ability to
: display function call backtraces and examining/inspecting stack
: frames.  I personally rarely use single-stepping and breakpoints.

But doesn't that require an exception or an error to break into the debugger?
If you are trying to track down a logic error, what approach can you use?


-Jonathon
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