The interaction library currently offers three structures that provide
a programmatic interface to Scheme 48's debugging facilities:
* REPLS starts the read-eval-print-loop with arbitrary input and
output ports.
* INSPECT-EXCEPTION provides exception handlers that allow interactive
inspection of exceptions and their backtrace.
* GC provides a small run-time interface to the garbage collector.
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After installation, use the switches
-lel module-system/load.scm -lel interaction/load.scm
to load this library.
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The structure REPLS offers procedures to start up the
read-eval-print-loop (REPL) from a script.
(script-repl greeting focus-value iport oport eport)
This procedure starts up a new REPL which greets the user with
GREETING, has FOCUS-VALUE as initial focus-value (accessible through
##) and uses the ports IPORT for input, OPORT for output and eport for
error messages.
(remote-repl greeting focus-value port)
Same as above but communication is done via a socket on port PORT.
The structure SOCKET2STDPORTS offers a very simple facility to map the
current input and output ports to the ports of a socket.
(socket<->stdports host port)
This procedure first establishes a TCP socket to port PORT on host
HOST. Afterwards is reads all data from (current-input-port) and
forwards it into the socket's input port. Likewise it reads all data
from the socket's output port and prints it to
(current-output-port).
The structure INSPECT-EXCEPTION makes some of the functionality of the
,debug and ,preview commands available.
(with-inspecting-handler port prepare thunk)
This procedure installs a exception handler which captures all
conditions which satisfy the predicate ERROR?. In case of an exception
PREPARE is applied to the condition. If it returns #t,
WITH-INSPECTING-HANDLER will fire up a remote REPL on port PORT with
the continuation of the condition as focus value. Currently, the
continuation of the REPL is the continuation of the call to
WITH-INSPECTING-HANDLER. If PREPARE returns #f the surrounding handler
is called.
As an example for the usage of the remote inspecting utility, consider
a program using WITH-INSPECTING-HANDLER with an obviously bogus body:
>(with-inspecting-handler 8080
(lambda (cond) (display "Help me on port 8080") #t)
(lambda () (/ 1 0)))
Help me on port 8080
Now start a second scsh:
[0 gasbichl@ventoux interaction] scsh -lm interfaces.scm -lm packages.scm -o 'socket2stdports'
Welcome to scsh 0.6.3
Type ,? for help.
> (socket<->stdports "ventoux" 8080)
Welcome to the command processor of the remote scsh
#{Exception-continuation (pc 69) (integer/ in ratnums)}
> ,debug
'#{Exception-continuation (pc 69) (integer/ in ratnums)}
[0] 1
[1] 0
inspect: d
'#{Exception-continuation (pc 15) (/ in scheme-level-0)}
inspect: d
'#{Continuation (pc 13) (unnamed in unnamed in unnamed ---)}
[0] '#{Procedure 1319 (unnamed in continuation->procedure in wind)}
[1: k] '#{Procedure 1319 (unnamed in continuation->procedure in wind)}
[2: accept] '#{Procedure 1319 (unnamed in continuation->procedure in wind)}
[3: handler] '#{Procedure 14367 (unnamed in with-inspecting-handler in inspect-exception)}
[4: thunk] '#{Procedure 14379}
inspect: ,go 34
Terminating command processor with value 34
Unfortunately, SOCKET<->STD-PORTS is currently not able to exit
gracefully if the connection dies:
Error: exception
os-error
(channel-maybe-write 32 '#{Byte-vector 10} 0 1 '#{Output-channel 4} ---)
WARNING: Returning does not work from a scsh with a running REPL!!!
(with-fatal-and-capturing-error-handler handler thunk)
An exception handler with allows to capture the continuation of the
exception. Here HANDLER is a procedure like
(handler condition raw-continuation condition decline) -> val
CONDITION and DECLINE are the same as in the usual WITH-HANDLER
procedure. RAW-CONTINUATION and CONTIUNATION represent the
continuation of the exception. RAW-CONTINUATION is not a procedure but
the VM's continuation object. The continuation of HANDLER is the
continuation of WITH-FATAL-AND-CAPTURING-ERROR-HANDLER.
(display-continuation raw-continuation [port] -> unspecified
The procedural analogy to the ,proceed command. Continuation must be a
raw continuation object as captured by
WITH-FATAL-AND-CAPTURING-ERROR-HANDLER, not a procedure as captured by
CALL-WITH-CURRENT-CONTINUATION.
The structure GC provides a procedure equivalent to the ,collect
command and offers some statistics about the garbage collector.
(collect outport) -> unspecified
Invokes the GC and prints the number of free words before and after
the collection to OUTPORT.
(gc-count) -> number
Returns the number of times the garbage collector has been invoked
since the start of the system.
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