>>>>> "Nicolas" == Nicolas Neuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Nicolas> Daniel Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> With reference to the specific case of ilisp, have you actually tried
>> this? Usually it's smart enough to interrupt the ongoing computation,
>> evaluate whatever expression it needs to in the debugger, then resume
>> as if by 'continue'
>>
>> Of course, this is ilisp, so it gets it wrong every so often when your
>> lisp's output is doing something that confuses it, and when that
>> happens it can be hard to determine exactly what's going on without
>> some knowledge of ilisp internals, but it's nice when it works.
>>
>> (If you have exciting things going on with readtables, that's another
>> good way to confuse it. I don't know if that's an issue for your
>> usage)
>>
>>
>> -dan
Nicolas> I tried it and it didn't work. I guess that your second scenario
Nicolas> happens, because I see an 0] in the output. Possibly the reason is
Nicolas> indeed the readtable. I myself am innocent of mistreating those, but
Nicolas> matlisp is using [] to delimit matrices.
Assuming you get to the debugger, you can try setting
debug:*debug-readtable* to the standard readtable. The debugger will
use this instead of whatever the current readtable is.
Ray
