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Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm in the process of embedding Guile into a C program, primarily by allowing > the user (via configuration files and some runtime-entered scripts) to create > "hook" procedures that get called in response to program events. Currently, > I'm experiencing a high level of frustration due to the fact that any error in > the user-provided scripts will cause my program to abort with a Scheme error. > I've tried (based on the tiny amount of documentation available and a fair > amount of code-examination) to set up a catch handler for the main program body; > however, even when my catch handler is invoked, my program still terminates > on a Scheme error. Is there any way to get around this feature? For scwm I wrote some code to evaluate hook callbacks in a safe dynamic environment that would catch errors and display nicely formatted error messages with line numbers and backtraces. It's in the file callbacks.c in the scwm distribution. I reccomend looking at that. - Maciej