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[PATCH] Add '--symlink' to 'guix shell'

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Message #127 received at 58812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>,
 58812 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#58812] [bug#59164] Coding style: similarly-named variables
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 15:47:31 +0100

Hi,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> I totally agree!  Preparing some materials for introducing Guile to
> GuixHPC folk, I am trying to collect some tips and, if I am honest, the
> debugging experience with Guile is really poor; compared to others (as
> Python).  For example, DrRacket provides an easy and nice user
> experience [1] – where it is easy to compare each intermediary result in
> the debugger.  For what it is worth, I have not been able to have some
> similar inspections as in [1].  Maybe, I am missing something…

Looking at the video you posted, I better understand what debugging
features we’re talking about.  DrRacket is the gold standard; here it
does something similar to what we have with in Elisp with EDebug, which
is certainly useful.

It may be more of a limitation of Geiser than of Guile.  I find it more
useful in “typical” imperative ELisp code than in functional Scheme
code, but it’d be nice to have either way!

Ludo’.

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