Question on compiling to bytecode

[Per Bothner]

Wen-Chun Ni wrote:
> Indeed. However, one thing we learned from JSP's experience is that,
> with source code generated, we desperate developers got an 
> insurance of debugging even though it's a little tedious. 
> If we use Kawa in a runtime system, the error reporting has to be
> able to do that. I believe many Common Lispers got the same
> experience too.

I'd love to have an Eclipse (and/or NetBeans) plug-in for Kawa.
Another project for a volunteer?

Kawa does generate variable names and line numbers, so it is in
principle to debug it using a debugger, but it is probably
difficult, as you have to know how the compiler mangles names,
and represents procedures.
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