[hunchentoot-devel] [patch] Invoking the debugger in Hunchentoot (was: Invoke-debugger)

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Peter Seibel <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:

> Hey, you're the guy who took out the special variable. ;-)

I blame it on Hans... :)

> I agree with your new position--it's more useful to be able to change
> the behavior of a running server to choose between logging, ignoring,
> or debugging errors just by setting a variable. Whether it's in a slot
> or special variable doesn't matter a ton. Though I could imagine cases
> where a special variable would be handy--you could change the policy
> in one piece of application code without affecting others.

At the handler level it wouldn't be possible.  Right now, I don't
think a special variable would buy you more flexibility given the
Hunchentoot architecture.  But I've been wrong before... :)