[racket-dev] no backtrace for error in macro

Ok. Whats your (the) strategy for debugging these sorts of errors? Yesterday I just stared at the macro debugger output for a while until I saw where an identifier that ultimately raised a syntax error showed up.

On 11/08/2011 10:41 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> This is a change I made recently and I put a rationale and explanation
> in the commit message here:
>
>   http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/commit/e1ce0a0d1e6120354ace65dc3fda76d0442fb3a1
>
> Robby
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> When this program is run in DrRacket the error is displayed in the interactions pane with a backtrace icon next to it but if you click that icon the backtrace window is blank. It would be nice to get some sort of backtrace or I suppose in the worst case no backtrace icon should appear.
>>
>> #lang racket
>>
>> (define-syntax (foo stx) (raise-syntax-error 'foo "dont use foo"))
>> (define-syntax (bar stx)
>>  #'(foo))
>>
>> (bar)
>>
>>
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