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 11 Debugging Features
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 When debugging a program, programmers often find it helpful to examine
 the program's internal status while it runs: the values of internal
 variables, the choices made in `if' and `cond' statements, and so
 forth.  Guile Scheme provides a debugging interface that programmers
 can use to single-step through Scheme functions and examine symbol
 bindings.  This is different from the  Debugging, which permits
 programmers to debug the Guile interpreter itself.  Most programmers
 will be more interested in debugging their own Scheme programs than the
 interpreter which evaluates them.
 
    [FIXME: should we include examples of traditional debuggers and
 explain why they can't be used to debug interpreted Scheme or Lisp?]
 

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* Single-Step         Execute a program or function one step at a time.
* Trace               Print a report each time a given function is called.
* Backtrace           See a list of the statements that caused an error.
 

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