On 10-Jun-08, at 7:07 PM, Willem Broekema wrote:
But there is the opposite case: a user introducing a variable binding that has identical name and value as a parameter (or an outer binding). This patch could remove a duplicated line that the user expected to see twice.
As a regular user of Allegro + Slime, I'll join you in your labelling of this as a frequent annoyance. It can result in an unwieldy stack frame in some instances making navigation confusing. Furthermore, I have never come across the situation you describe, nor would I engineer it.
(Perhaps a better way to handle this, would be to include the "required" / "local" labels in the listing of the local variables?)
Perhaps, but I'm inclined to not show the duplicates at all. Technically speaking, I think they should be there to prevent serious confusion in the event the unlikely does happen, but I'd rather not clutter up the display with them. -- Geoff