[plt-scheme] Where is macroexpand in PLT Scheme?
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 05:05 PM, Bill Clementson wrote:
>
> --- John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> [snipped my comments]
>> I can't help you with either of these. In
>> particular, I'm not sure
>> what you mean by 'expand-to-top-level.' I should
>> clarify that I'm not
>> the author of the Check Syntax tool.
>
> See my reply to Robby Findler - I meant
> expand-to-top-form.
>
> [snipped my comments]
>> Yes and no. The stepper should continue to grow.
>> At the same time,
>> the rigorous attention to matching a plausible
>> reduction semantics
>> hobbles the progress of the stepper to higher
>> language levels. The
>> debugger tool approaches this from the opposite
>> direction; that is, it
>> makes no attempt to unwind macros at all, and just
>> dumps it all on the
>> user.
>
> Debugger tool? How do I access the debugger tool? Is
> this something that works with the more advanced
> language levels?
You can only get it by going to the bleeding-edge exp-tagged version of
DrScheme (see the 'anonymous CVS' link on the download page). And you
have to promise not to curse me when you discover how larval it is.
john