Re: [PATCH] Allow printing of Guile values

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Hi Jim,

Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> writes:

> Definitely.  Part of the rationale for deleting it was, "Oh, if
> someone shows up to keep it alive, we've still got it in CVS."  I'll
> be happy to review changes.  The key is that someone make themselves
> available to keep it working.

Great.

> A debugger should be able to inspect the state of programs in serious
> disarray, so there's an argument against relying too much on invoking
> functions in Guile.  Certainly, though, the best code would draw a
> clear distinction between scm-lang.c and scm-lang-guile.c.

Agreed.  However, to be very pragmatic, we may be better off with
minimal support that works and doesn't add a significant maintenance
burden.  For instance, while valuable, interpretation of Guile values on
the GDB side requires a significant amount of code that must be kept in
sync with Guile.

How would you like to proceed: would you like to reinstall the deleted
files and patch against them, or would you prefer that we somehow start
anew?

Thanks,
Ludovic.