variable definition in include files not usable in class file

[Sudarshan S Chawathe]

I did not get a chance to look at your code carefully but, based on a
very quick look, I suspect that it may be running afoul of
syntactic-hygiene rules.  In particular, I believe that the identifier
debug-mode used in the syntax-definitions of 'debug', etc., cannot refer
to the top-level debug-mode variable due to hygiene rules.

Regards,

-chaw