[racket-dev] no backtrace for error in macro

On 11/08/2011 11:18 AM, Robby Findler wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> I guess runtime stack traces won't help. It would be nice to see all the locations the syntax went through in its lifetime. Maybe it could be stored as a syntax property?
> You mean you could, say, click on some subexpression in step N and
> then go back one step and find that expression (if it still exists) in
> the previous step in the stepper?

I suppose that could be useful if that stepper showed me the last expression that it tried to execute before the syntax error was raised. Then I would have seen

  (... my-new-literal ...)
->
  dont use my-new-literal

If I could click on 'my-new-literal' in the code above the arrow and keep pressing back until I found its origin then I would be happy. Right now the last step before the syntax error does not highlight 'my-new-literal' as the syntax that is to be executed next. Actually even if I just saw that (the next step to be executed with code highlighted) I could have found my issue very quickly.