Re: pre-announce exmh-2.7.2

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 09:26:33 CST, Chris Garrigues said:

> BTW, the reason I did that as a variable trace instead of explicit calls in
> the first place was because in the previous code there were lots of cases
> where the explicit calls happened multiple times and as I tried to clean them
> up, I found myself chasing difficult screw cases all over the place
> Eventually I simplified things a whole lot by doing the variable trace and
> deleting all the explicit calls.

Yeah, trace can be really handy for that.  The problem is that it ends up being
an awful lot like Intercal's 'come from' statement (the only other actual
implementation I've seen of it was the old IBM Fortran G compiler's DEBUG
stuff, which allowed stuff like 'AT 10' - though of course all the Lisp-derived
langages the whole *point* of the language is tacking that stuff onto expressions
with (cons (foo) (bar)) ;)

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