FWIW I agree about the “debug” mode. That said, it isn't just a nice-to-have. This is something that can make people mention Perl 6 when discussing the most amazing features of modern programming languages… much like people mention grammars today :)
On 2016-01-17 04:07:19, jn...@jnthn.net wrote: > On Fri Jan 15 11:56:17 2016, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > > This bug report is a continuation of > > https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127281 > > > > > > <TimToady> while we're at it, let's make backtraces print all the > > arguments > > to all the routines... > > <TimToady> well, the short ones, anyway > > > > > > That would be awesome!!! > > > > In fact, this idea was mentioned a couple of times. One of those > > times it > > was discussed whether .perl, .gist or something else should be used > > for the > > output, but unfortunately I cannot find the link (perhaps somebody > > else > > will. However, there was no final decision). > > We'll likely only be able to support this if some kind of "debug mode" > that disables optimizations is switched on. We already discard some of > the info needed to do this, and we'll be getting rather more > aggressive at optimization in the coming months. And performance is > more pressing than this nice-to-have.
