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In common lisp, the function (trace name) can be used to see output about the calls to a function.
If my function is declared with local scope, how do I describe it to trace?
eg, how do I trace bar, below:
(defun foo (x) (labels ((bar (y) (format t 'bar: ~a~&' y))) (bar x)))
Tracing local functions with
(TRACE ...)is not defined by ANSI Common Lisp.Some implementations have extensions to do that. See for example CMU CL.
Other than that, you would need add some code to the definition of FOO. For example it might be useful to have a macro so that you can write the call to bar as (trace-it (bar x)) and the macro would expand into code that prints the entry and exit.